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Mozart Symphony #40

Author: salzo
Date: 2011-03-30 03:06

is the greatest symphony ever written. It amazes me how Mozart, with such limited instrumentation, was able to get such magnificent colors.
Mahler, Strauss? Fuggeadaboudid. Even with everything including the kitchen sink in their orchestras, they couldnt shine Mozarts shoes when it came to orchestration.

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Re: Mozart Symphony #40

Author: andrewsong
Date: 2011-03-30 03:09

You're definitely spot on by saying Mozart was a master orchestrater. However, I think the other 3 you mentioned are also fantastic at orchestration as well. The plethora of instruments at their disposal shouldn't make the composers be labeled as "worse" than Mozart. Obviously, they wrote differect styles of music and all of them have composed masterpieces with brilliant orchestration. But I'm still all for the Mozart too!

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Re: Mozart Symphony #40

Author: GBK
Date: 2011-03-30 03:36

salzo wrote:

> Mozart Symphony 40 ...

Only if you play the revised 1791 version with the added clarinets [wink]

...GBK

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Re: Mozart Symphony #40

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2011-03-30 10:09

GBK,

Are you saying that #40 was originally conceived WITHOUT clarinets????

...............Paul Aviles

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Re: Mozart Symphony #40

Author: GBK
Date: 2011-03-30 12:05

Paul Aviles wrote:

> GBK,
>
>
> Are you saying that #40 was originally conceived WITHOUT
> clarinets????
>
>
> ...............Paul Aviles
>

Yup

...GBK

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Re: Mozart Symphony #40

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2011-03-30 12:17

Thank you. I don't know my Mozartian history the way that I should.

................Paul Aviles

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Re: Mozart Symphony #40

Author: davyd
Date: 2011-03-30 12:23

THe Berlin Philharmonic recording under Bohm (DG) is to be avoided, as it's the inferior original version.

I don't know that it's the "greatest" ever written. But it's certainly up there.

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