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• September 15.16, 2006
  Boston Hausmusik’s Mozart 250
  Program IV - Music for Two and Three: Violin Sonatas and Piano Trios
  On February 1, 1764, Leopold Mozart wrote to his wife from Paris, "Four sonatas by Mr. Wolfgang Mozart are now being engraved. Imagine the sensation that they will cause, with a title-page saying that they are the work of a seven-year-old child." This program opens with the sparkling Sonata in C major, K. 6, the work that effectively launched Mozart’s career as a composer of chamber music.

  In 1778 Mozart again published violin sonatas in Paris. Significantly, he issued this grand set of six sonatas (K. 301-306) as his Opus I. These works, while still "accompanied keyboard sonatas," forged new paths in the genre, elevating the violin above its often subservient role to create true chamber music. Tonight we’ll hear the beloved Sonata in e minor, K. 304, and the ebullient Sonata in A major, K.305.

  The two piano trios on the program were written after Mozart settled in Vienna, one of the greatest musical capitals in the world at this time. He was profoundly inspired by this city’s musical environment; he was surrounded by first-class musicians and avid music-lovers, and these mature masterworks bear testimony to that inspiration.

• January 13, 2007
  Rare Beauty: Chamber Music by Mozart, Wanhal, and Beethoven
  With special guest Eric Hoeprich, historical clarinet
  This program largely features works that have unusual instrumentation, such as Beethoven’s whimsical Duet for viola and cello "With obbligato eyeglasses" (WoO 32) and Mozart’s delightful Trio for piano, clarinet, and viola ("Kegelstatt", K. 498) Beethoven’s Trio for piano, clarinet, and cello (Op. 11) breaks the piano trio mold by substituting the violin with clarinet, creating altogether new textures, while Vanhal’s light-footed Sonata for piano and clarinet is one of the earliest models of this instrument combination. Mozart’s Sonata for piano and violin in G major (K. 379) is a mercurial work which is unusual within its genre.
• June 12, 2007
  Chamber Music of Mozart
  Join Boston Hausmusik at the Boston Early Music Festival Fringe Series and hear some of Mozart's most beloved chamber music. Presented in conjunction with The Rosetta String Trio, who will play a program of brilliant yet rarely heard Beethoven trios. Refreshments will be served between the two concerts.
• June 16, 2007
  The Height of Expression: Keyboard Music of Haydn, C.P.E. Bach, and Mozart
  "... the keyboardist, before all other musicians, is able all alone to practice the declamatory style, that astonishingly swift flight from one affect to another."
  —Carl Phillip Emmmanuel Bach, from Part 1 of Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753)

Boston Hausmusik’s Mozart 250
Program IV - Music for Two and Three: Violin Sonatas and Piano Trios

Violin Sonata in C major, K. 6
Violin Sonata in A major, K. 305
Violin Sonata in e minor, K. 304
Piano Trio in C major, K. 548
Piano Trio in B-flat major, K. 502

Friday, September 15, 2006 - 8:00 pm
First Church
66 Marlborough Street
Boston, MA 02116
$12 general/ $8 students, seniors (Wheelchair accessible)
www.fscboston.org

Saturday, September 16, 2006 - 8:00 pm
Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church
1555 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
$12 general/ $8 students, seniors (Wheelchair accessible)
www.gbgm-umc.org/harepumc/

Rare Beauty: Chamber Music by Mozart, Vanhal, and Beethoven

Sonata for piano and violin in G major, K. 379
Trio in E-flat for piano, clarinet, and viola, K. 498 "Kegelstatt"
Sonata for piano and clarinet in B-flat
Duet in E-flat major for viola and cello, WoO 32 "Duett mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern"
Trio in B-flat for piano, clarinet, and cello, Op. 11

Saturday, January 13, 2007 - 8:00 pm
The Memorial Church
Harvard University
1 Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138-6500
Admission: Free (A retiring collection will be taken)
Wheelchair accessible
Telephone: 617-495-5508
www.memorialchurch.harvard.edu

Chamber Music of Mozart *

Piano Trio in B-flat major, K. 502
Duo for Violin and Viola in G major, K. 423
Piano Quartet in g minor, K. 478

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 3:00 pm
Goethe Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
Wheelchair accessible
www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/enindex.htm
 
* Presented as a double feature with the 1pm Rosetta String Trio concert (Beethoven's String Trios), also at the Goethe Institut. Refreshments will be served between the two concerts.
Suggested donation: $10/$8 students, seniors, BEMF pass-holders, EMA members: combination ticket (also suggested donation) $15/$10.
www.rosettatrio.com/concerts.html

The Height of Expression: Music of Haydn, C.P.E. Bach, and Mozart

Haydn: Sonata in A-flat major, Hob. XVI: 46
Mozart: Sonata in E-flat major, K. 282
C. P. E. Bach: Fantasia in C major, Wq. 61/6 (Für Kenner und Liebhaber, vol. 6)
Mozart: Fantasia in c minor, K. 475 & Sonata in c minor, K. 457

Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 11:30 am
First Church
66 Marlborough Street
Boston, MA 02116
$5 suggested donation
(Wheelchair accessible)
www.fscboston.org