When the well-known composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If it had been a baby prodigy right now, he would in all probability have thousands and thousands of followers and “associates” followers on social media.
However even within the 18th century, Mozart’s father Leopold warned his son of false associates – individuals who envy him, but in addition Schmeichler who solely informed him what he wished to listen to.
This yr Mozartfest WürzburgWhat began this week and runs till June 22 is about Mozart’s friendships.
The competition in Würzburg is the oldest and largest Mozart Pageant Germany UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The motto of the competition this yr, “however via sound: buddy Mozart” refers to one in all his quotes and the way music was its principal type of expression – and the connection.
“An actual friendship requires belief and mutual understanding,” says the inventive director Evelyn Mining and provides that even thousands and thousands of followers can not change such a relationship on social media platforms.
The kid with out associates?
Mozart triggered a sense as a so -called girls’s little one in the course of the 18th century. He traveled via Europe along with his father for years and fascinated Hof -Adlige along with his expertise over the violin and piano.
However there was no time for shut friendships along with his colleagues.
“After all, the household concentrated very a lot on itself; the bond was significantly sturdy within the early 1760s,” stated Minining to DW.
Even later, you can not think about that Mozart hangs round with associates with cozy eating places. “These had been extra doubtless relationships that had been inbuilt a musical context: colleagues, musicians, academics, patrons or orchestral musicians from the bands,” explains mining.
Inventive friendships within the Mozartfest
Inventive friendships additionally play a particular function within the performers of the Mozart Pageant this yr.
Buddies Nils Mönkemeyer (viola) and William Youno (piano) had been accompanied on the opening occasion, accompanied by the Ensemble Resonance underneath conductor Riccardo Minasi. Mönkemeyer and Youn met via music. They love Mozart’s works, however in addition they wished one thing extra fashionable for his or her efficiency.
They due to this fact commissioned Manfred Trojahn, who has made a reputation for himself with fashionable operas to jot down a brand new piece: “Trame Lunari”, a double live performance for viola, piano and chamber orchestra, which allow an uncommon mixture of devices. “Trame Lunari” means roughly as “moon phantoms”.
“There are lots of modifications in colour within the play, many lighting nuances, and that’s precisely what the title refers,” Trojahn informed DW.
He appreciates the transparency of Mozart’s music. “My composition needs to be via mild and clear, similar to Mozart’s works,” explains Trojahn.
Mönkemeyer and Younger are a effectively -taken workforce. Generally they carried out extraordinarily delicate sounds with nuance and sensitivity.
Joseph Haydn, the fatherly buddy
Mozart continues to be thought-about a mannequin for a lot of musicians right now. He himself had function fashions just like the composer Joseph Haydn and Bach’s son Johann Christian Bach, whom he admired for his elegant, mild music.
Joseph Haydn was 24 years older than Mozart. They developed a pleasant father-son relationship, and Mozart wrote in letters that Haydn was his “dearest buddy”. In 1785 he devoted six string quartets to whom he gave the scores and stated they had been his “kids”.
Horn participant Joseph Leutgeb was additionally one in all Mozart’s shut associates. Mozart wrote humorous mockery in his outcomes corresponding to “For her, Mr. Donkey”.
Mozart was additionally associates with Anton Stadler, top-of-the-line clarinetists of his time. He composed a clarinet quintet and a clarinet live performance for him.
Later, when Mozart grew to become increasingly more sick and lonely, he wrote that music was primarily his solely buddy.
The ‘mistaken associates’?
And what about Mozart’s false associates, which was frightened about?
Considered one of them seems in Milo’s Formans 1984 movie “Amadeus”: Antonio Salieri is portrayed within the movie as a mediocre composer and as Mozart’s opponent, who scolds behind Mozart’s again and even poisoned him.
Though this story has lengthy been refuted, it stays a preferred perception. Evelyn Mining needs to dispel such clichés within the Mozartfest: “Salieri was not a malignant competitor. It’s all mistaken,” she says. He was additionally not a failure that lived in Mozart’s shadow, however a revered court docket composer. “Mozart and Salieri appreciated themselves,” added mining.
The “black Mozart”
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, can also be proven as Mozart’s rival in literature and within the movie “Chevalier” (2022) directed by Stephen Williams.
He was born in Guadeloupe in 1745 because the son of a white French noble and a black slave and got here to France as a baby. He made a reputation for himself as a violinist and composer early on.
Joseph Haydn later composed for Bologne’s personal orchestra. Bologne was additionally thought-about as director of the Royale de Musique Academy, however racial discrimination prevented his appointment.
The violin proven within the movie “Chevalier” duel between Mozart and Bologne has by no means taken place. It’s questionable whether or not Bologne, 9 years older than Mozart, even had direct contact with him as a younger musician.
Mining explains as composers who had been lively on the similar time and had been celebrated of their circles that they had been opponents. Even the “Black Mozart” label for Joseph Bologne solely got here posthumously.
Friendships yesterday and right now
The competition’s “Mozart Laboratory” homes discussions on friendship with a deal with inventive associations and social networks. “Due to course we’re in the course of a revolutionary social transformation that’s strongly decided by new digital developments such because the Web, social media and AI,” says Mining.
To be able to counteract this, concert events can even happen in personal homes during which like -minded individuals come collectively and perhaps rediscover music because the “medium of friendship”.
Who is aware of that the occasion may result in new friendships.
This text was initially written in German.
