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Mozart1

ted and hopes of a job came nothing.Back in Salzburg Mozart worked for two years as a church organist for the new archbishop. His employer was less kindlydisposed to the Mozart family than his predecessor had been, but the composer nonetheless produced some of his earliestmasterpieces. The famous Sinfonia concertante for violin, violo and orchestra was written in 1780, and the following yearMozart's first great stage work, the opera Idomeneo, was produced in Munich, where Mozart also wrote his Serenade for 13wind instruments, K361. On his return from Munich, however, the hostility brewing between him and the archbishop came to ahead, and Mozart resigned. On delivering his resignation he was verbally abused and eventually, physically ejected from thearchbishop's residence. Without patronage, Mozart was forced to confront the perils of a freelance existence. Initially his efforts met with some success.He took up residence in Vienna and in 1782 his opera Die Entfhrung aus dem Serail (The abdication from the Seraglio) wasproduced in the city and rapturously received. The same year in Vienna's St Stephen's Cathedral Mozart married ConstanzeWeber. Soon afterwards he initiated a series of subscription concerts at which he performed his piano concertos andimprovised at the keyboard. Most of Mozart's great piano concertos were written for these concerts, including those in C,K467, A, K488 and C minor, K491. In these concertos Mozart brought to the genre a unity and diversity it had not hadbefore, combining bold symphonic richness with passages of subtle delicacy.In 1758 Mozart dedicated to Haydn the six string quartets that now bear Haydn's name. Including in this group are the quartetsknown as the Hunt, which make use of hunting calls, and the Dissonance, which opens with an eerie succession of dissonantchords. Overwhelmed by their quality, Haydn confessed to Leopold Mozart, 'Before God and as an honest man I tell you thatyour son is the greate...

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