Schnittke - Moz-Art a la Haydn

4,247 views · Published 22 October 2014 · 12:09 · Indexed 4 October 2026

Channel: The Contemporary Listener · 2014 · Music

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Composed in 1977. The work is based on the surviving bits of Mozart’s lost “pantomime music” K. 446, which was originally composed for the pre-Lenten carnival week of 1783 (though, you will almost certainly recognize a different, well-known, strain of Mozart also inserted). Schnittke also wove in theatrical elements: it begins in darkness, and ends in darkness. The “à la Haydn” is a nod to Haydn’s “Farewell” symphony—the musicians simply begin leaving the stage as the work concludes.

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