VSO plays A Little Bit of Mozart, December 13
The digital concert features the famous serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
VSO music director Otto Tausk.
VSO presents A Little Bit of Mozart on December 13 at 2 pm via TheConcertHall.ca.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART’S Eine Kleine Nachtmusik— “a little night music”—begins with one of the best known melodies of classical music. Remarkably, the master composed the beloved Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major, K.525 at age 31 in August 1787, the same month he finished the second act of his famous opera, Don Giovanni.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra will perform Eine Kleine Nachtmusik on December 13 at 2 pm during the first in a series of performances featuring Mozart. VSO maestro Otto Tausk and concertmaster Nicholas Wright will lead the program, which features another masterpiece for strings, Edvard Vard Grieg's Holberg Suite, Op. 40.
The Norwegian composer wrote the ensemble work of five movements—each representing a style of Baroque dances from the 17th and the 18th centuries—in 1884 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of writer and philosopher Ludvig Holberg.
Originally called Fra Holbergs tid (“from Holberg’s time”), it’s an early example of neoclassicism– a style of composition that does not associate itself with a particular narrative and that would later become popular among composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev.
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