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| Composer | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) |
| Period | Classical |
| Year | 1787 |
| Work type | Orchestral |
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PatKop’s Everyday Non-sense proves to be a Dadaesque house party
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Aurora Orchestra serve up an over-the-top confection at Purcell Room in Southbank Centre.
Game, set and match to Prom 3
This was the first time I've been to a concert with a 10:30 kick-off, but then this was the first of its kind. Nor did the inaugural Sport Prom turn out to be merely a game of two halves...
Martin Fröst plays Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra in Istanbul
Even if the joke is good, it’s all in the telling, as they say. Mozart’s Ein musikalischer Spaß (“A Musical Joke”) is good, but it probably meant more to its contemporaries than it does to us today. It is Mozart’s satire of the incompetent composers, musicians and copyists of his time. It’s an inside joke, for all practical purposes.
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Bachtrack top ten: musical jokes and parodies
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For 1st April – or indeed any day of the year – some classical music in a playlist to raise a smile or two.