Mozart F minor ogan fantasia

[Guest]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0xhx1Isgbc

I got this link from somebody, and I have to say that I think it's a supremely competent performance of a work that I'm not technically good enough to master!

Looking at the comments, I too wondered what was in Wolfie's mind when he decided to go back a generation and come up with a quick fugue. Maybe just because he could? Maybe homage to JSB? Maybe just because he enjoyed doing it?

Who knows? Glad we've got it, though!

Enjoy.

[Alison]

Have fugues ever gone totally out of fashion ?

(You always had an eye for pretty girls.)

[rauschwerk]

Mozart was a very great deal more than a 'master of the galant' as one of the U-tube comments puts it. From the time he was smitten by baroque music (around the time of the C minor Mass), fugue became a very important part of his language. When he wrote this wonderful fantasia, it was not so very long since he had heard a Bach motet at Leipzig.

[Contre Bombarde]

Have fugues ever gone totally out of fashion ?

(You always had an eye for pretty girls.)

Ahhh, the joys of mechanical organs with no playing aids and a bevy of régistrants! It's just not the same with USB stick control and dozens of pistons...

[ardcarp]

It was written for a mechanical clock, wasn't it? Some clock.

[mercia]

Have fugues ever gone totally out of fashion ?

possibly not, though I'd welcome anyone pointing to any examples written after [let's say] 1980.

(marvellous example of one in last night's Wigmore concert - (pre-1980 of course))