what is mozart characteristic?

[fenz]

Hi all,
I'm confused how to play mozart (about the characteristic of music, etc.)
Could anyone help me please? Thanks for your help

[ramseytheii]

To play Mozart well, you have to be able to shift characters using very little changes in texture.  In other words, if Liszt changes character, he always changes the texture.  With Mozart, he gives you extremely little to work with pianistically.  You have to make scales and arpeggios sound in different ways, even though they are written the same.  Good luck!

Walter Ramsey

[rhpatten]

Some consider Mozart the greatest composer of all and (therefore) the most difficult of all to perform.

The music should convey SIMPLICITY and CLARITY.  Basically, all you have to do is play exactly what he wrote!   But to achieve this, a supremely exquisite technique is needed, so as to give the very finest degree of control and nuance to every note.   So:   hours and hours of practice of scales and arpeggios. 

If you can, work from an Urtext copy.    All through the 20th century, even reputable publishers came out with Mozart piano pieces with vast layers of dynamic and phrasing marks added by "Editors", making the music look much more messy and confusing than it actually is.

Beware of accidentally adding your own Rubato as a way to get round a technical difficulty.  Although Rubato is "allowable" in Mozart if you know what you are doing!

In a scale passage of say 16 semiquavers [16th notes in USA-speak, I think] in a 4/4 bar, quite often the 16th in the bar is surprisingly important to attend to.  Because (1) it provides the link into the next strand of melody; and (2) the question of how it is shortened or lengthened may have a crucial impact on the spring of the rhythm.

Hope I haven't put you off !                                Robert

[amelialw]

it can't be really taught.

listen to recordings or his pieces, i recommend Uchida's.

[Petter]

Keep in mind that his music was written for a totally different piano aswell and some phrase markings can be hard to execute on a modern piano.
 

[christalia]

Mozart is a happy n wealthy person,so the music that he composed was depicted his life.. Try to enjoy and feel happy when we play mozart.. all mozart's music are in happy mood..  so if we play it in bad mood situation.i bet you won't get the best performance..  Enjoy the music n keep happy always when you play mozart..

[a-sharp]

All that... and humor ... find the humor in it. He was pretty much a kid even as an adult... a genuis - but a kid.

Have fun!

[amelialw]

Mozart is a happy n wealthy person,so the music that he composed was depicted his life.. Try to enjoy and feel happy when we play mozart.. all mozart's music are in happy mood..  so if we play it in bad mood situation.i bet you won't get the best performance..  Enjoy the music n keep happy always when you play mozart..

this is not true...Mozart's father was rich and Mozart was well off for a while but after he became a freelance musician he was poor. You haven't studied about Mozart's life so please do not add in your own words
He was often unhappy, even before he became a freelance musician.

Not all of Mozart's music is happy, for example look at his 2 sonatas: in a minor K310 and in c minor K457. I have learnt the c minor one and now am working on the a minor one. Both depict the sadness and tragedy in his life and are musically very mature which makes it hard to play.

[amelialw]

playing Mozart...it is vastly different from playing Beethoven or Haydn.
to play Mozart well, you need agile fingers, it needs to sound light(not too light), every note has to be played out clearly and sound different. You need to have that certain touch and the music has to flow and sparkle

[a-sharp]

the way my music history teacher put it -

he was not poor - he was bad with money. there's a difference.

He actually made $ but it spent it all and so ended up with nothing

[amelialw]

the way my music history teacher put it -

he was not poor - he was bad with money. there's a difference.

He actually made $ but it spent it all and so ended up with nothing

he was poorly paid though after her left the archbioshop

[a-sharp]

oh ok

LOL "her the archbioshop"

teasing

[fenz]

playing Mozart...it is vastly different from playing Beethoven or Haydn.
to play Mozart well, you need agile fingers, it needs to sound light(not too light), every note has to be played out clearly and sound different. You need to have that certain touch and the music has to flow and sparkle

hoo... so how should I play it? would you explain it more clearly please... thanks 

[amelialw]

hoo... so how should I play it? would you explain it more clearly please... thanks 

i told u, I can't! It is something that you have to discover yourself.

[fenz]

ooh... do you have any recommended recordings of mozart?

[fenz]

thanks for everyone who had given me replies. I appreciate it all  .

[amelialw]

ooh... do you have any recommended recordings of mozart?

Uchida& Periah