If only Mozart (or Schubert, among others) would have had ten more years of life... their latest works were so outstanding...
@enjoyclassicalmusic6006
Жыл бұрын
I totally agree...imagine 20 years more, like Beethoven had. Or 40, if they'd done a Haydn! Scarcely imaginable...
@Treepusher1
Жыл бұрын
But as they say in show business -always leave them wanting more.
@paules3437
Жыл бұрын
And Mendelssohn and Bizet and Gershwin. If I get to the afterlife and find out those guys haven't been composing for the past two centuries, I'm gonna be mad!
@pavaomrazek
Жыл бұрын
If Mozart finished his Requiem, I believe it would be the greatest piece ever written.
@paules3437
Жыл бұрын
@@pavaomrazek I know you meant "Piece" but actually it might have BEEN thee "greatest peace" as you say!
@propman3523
Жыл бұрын
Five separate themes?! For Mozart, master of the the opera, this is his forte. How blessed humanity has been!
@editingsecrets
Жыл бұрын
Perfect example of why it's said that you can listen to great music over and over and notice new things each time. Your color coding of each theme is very helpful.
@thonbrocket2512
Жыл бұрын
>over and over and notice new things each time Yeah, kinda like Futurama repeats.
@Loupa57
Жыл бұрын
And then if you’ve the chance to actually be IN the orchestra creating that music. Well, it’s a privilege.
@editingsecrets
Жыл бұрын
@@Loupa57 Which I've been, in orchestras and string quartets and concert choirs. Listening all around for your cues in context is such a wonderful way to learn how a masterful piece is constructed!
@richardkoenig5399
Жыл бұрын
A brilliant professor of my college years offered a survey course of classical music for those of us who knew nothing. To get a seat in the classroom, located in the basement of an ancient-seeming campus building, you had to arrive early. Kids who weren't even enrolled would crowd in. Mozart's 41st was the first piece we studied. We learned there was a musical architecture within the magic, and yet the magic ultimately defied explanation.
@steveruzich3273
Жыл бұрын
This passage is stunningly complex, but sounds natural - easy and buoyant. Mozart's genius is unsurpassed.
@laurenlofton9039
Жыл бұрын
Didn’t even have to watch the video. Saw the score in the thumbnail and knew instantly what it was.
@codonauta
Жыл бұрын
Mozart composed this last symphony in 15 days, not the last movement, 15 days for the entire symphony. It's incredible he made this 5 themes fugue work in such a few time. An usual composer spent months to do something like that. And worst, this symphony was not performed more than 2 or 3 times.
@garydmcgath
4 ай бұрын
You seem to be assuming he didn't start on the 41st until after he had completed the 40th. It's at least as plausible that he was working on the three last symphonies in parallel, The time from the completion of the 39th to the completion of the 40th was just about a month, and the 40th is shorter than the 41st. It seems more likely to me that when he completed the 40th, he'd already done a lot of the work on the 41st, so the remainder took less time. Mozart was a fast composer, though. He wrote the "Linz" Symphony in 4 days, so it's possible you're right.
@johnparrott2052
Жыл бұрын
"An inconceivably beautiful pool of music.". Well put.
@oraclewjr1
4 ай бұрын
Excellent video. This is my favorite movement of my favorite piece of classical music and I am still probing its depths. One cannot imagine what another 35 years of this musical genius would have given the world!
@SA-bc6jw
Жыл бұрын
How could I have lived so long without hearing this? OMG!
@aminnkellsein
Жыл бұрын
I could tell just from the thumbnail it was gonna be the Mozart 'Jupiter' Symphony. (I recognized the sheet music.)
@violjohn
Жыл бұрын
This is for me the finest music in the symphonic genre; it’s lively, magisterial, human and exhilarating. It never fails to overwhelm me. We are all lucky to have this music. Thank you for lifting the curtain on some of its glory
@tesmith47
Жыл бұрын
thank you for the identification " symphonic genre"
@Ennuisix
Жыл бұрын
Many years ago, my girlfriend, a conservatory grad, asked me my "desert island" choice of music. I immediately said "The Jupiter". It would remind me of what music is all about. Nicely parsed, young man.
@maryhook9478
Жыл бұрын
Thank The Lord that we were lucky enough to haave Mozart on earth for 36 years!
@Lexy_Meier
Ай бұрын
He then had to return to heaven.
@katrinat.3032
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I was the one who asked you before to explain fugues more after your last video. You said you would and you did!! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been driving in my car with this symphony blasting!!! Love Mozart’ s Jupiter. I love Gustov Host Jupiter too but that’s for another day. Thank you!! Love the color coding and little comments.
@enjoyclassicalmusic6006
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I'm never sure whether to add more or less comments during the music sections...
@katrinat.3032
Жыл бұрын
@@enjoyclassicalmusic6006 What you did was the perfect amount
@fob3476
Жыл бұрын
@@enjoyclassicalmusic6006 Good video, but IMO, the popping sounds & weird pictures between 0:11 and 0:25 are unnecessary
@brians9508
Жыл бұрын
@@fob3476 Always a critic. I guess the videos that you have made and put on youtube don't do that?
@TorchwoodPandP
Жыл бұрын
Loved the Tom Lehrer quote. And the colour coding.
@alhfgsp
Жыл бұрын
Mozart can always give us a lesson in counterpoint.
@barney6888
Жыл бұрын
All of Bach's output is the greatest 30 seconds of classical music., because after 30 seconds of pondering his work, one cannot think anymore and is left speechless.
@frenchimp
Жыл бұрын
Mozart got lucky in that Bach is considered by musicologists to be a baroque, not a classical composer...
@brianr.3085
Жыл бұрын
All of his output? Even the exercises for pedal, or the early keyboard toccata and fugues like BWV 913, or his secular cantatas?
@user-fu7zf4ck9z
Жыл бұрын
@@brianr.3085 yes
@frenchimp
Жыл бұрын
@@brianr.3085 The secular cantatas are wonderful. I don't know about the exercises for pedal.
@brianr.3085
Жыл бұрын
@@frenchimp Some of them have enjoyable movements, but they hardly rank among the best of Bach, let alone the best 30 seconds of music ever.
@hymnodyhands
Жыл бұрын
I remember when I first heard this section of Mozart's 41st, and realized why viscerally that he is considered among the world's greatest composers ... halfway between the last great works of Bach and the last great works of Beethoven, there is that thirty seconds of perfection in the middle, looking both ways!
@alv2617
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video - such a beautiful way of unpacking the subtle complexity. Bravo!
@christinelloyd8775
Жыл бұрын
Mozart’s genius will continue to astound classical music lovers for ever. I love this symphony and have played maybe thousands of times. This part of the great 41 is definitely my favourite and I always ponder afterwards how does someone come up with these amazing pieces of music. But of course, Mozart is not just someone, he one of the greatest, or maybe the greatest composer of all time.
@francescozennaro6855
Жыл бұрын
Dopo Beethoven e Bach...😉
@TheHandyDandyHandle
Жыл бұрын
The second you said fugue I know it was the Mozart symphony 41 final movement, it is divinely brilliant. 5 part invertible counterpoint in fugue form using 4 musically beautiful subjects taken from the movement all leading to a triumphant coming together with the 5th and finale remaining motive of the piece. Well played Her Mozart, well played.
@ianbarbarafry575
Жыл бұрын
Just plain brilliant - if only my 'structure' lessons were this clear 50 years ago!
@1950francesca
Жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis. I’ve always loved this last movement of the Jupiter but never truly understood all the things that were happening in it. Your unpacking it and revealing the five melodies has made my appreciation of it far deeper and richer. Thank you!
@masterpye69
Жыл бұрын
This piece of the 41st symphony gave me almost highest note for the music exam at high school final exams, (Baccalauréat), so I will always remember it with love an nostalgia!
@Griwhoolda
Жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh.... I knew what exactly what this would be, just from the TITLE of the video! One of my favorites!
@iwatchtoomuchtwoset
Жыл бұрын
mozart is a genius. no one can dispute.
@ryuaoyama2580
Жыл бұрын
I think out of all movements of the Jupiter Symphony, the first and the last movements are outstandingly masterful, while the second and third movement is beautiful.
@jonathanirvin2201
Жыл бұрын
I recall a similar episode of a radio program entitled "Music West" many years ago, perhaps 25. At the time i was not the biggest Mozart fan, much more interested in L.V. Beethoven and the later romantics.The program I heard, on public radio, destroyed my preconceptions of W. A. Mozart's canon and left me in tears. This episode of 'Enjoy Classical Music' has recharged my passion. While I wish I could find the Music West episode, this production will more than adequately fill the void!
@SillyWillyFan47
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for making my appreciation of Mozart's language richer today. Wish your videos were around when I was at school. Color coding. combined with page of score and the orchestral sound. We live in blessed times indeed.
@NicoDraak74
7 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for making this video. I have been looking for a video like this last year when I wanted to show friends and family the beauty, briljante and complexity of the 4th movement. Your video perfectly captures both graphical in in words, so even a layman without knowledge about scores can understand it.
@erichodge567
Жыл бұрын
Outstanding, but I thought you were going to bring us the moment toward the end of the movement where Mozart inverts the theme. This just blew me away as a fifteen year old discovering the music. How beautiful it all was...
@MonteAGarrett
Жыл бұрын
Your comment about inverting the theme has piqued my interest. I'm going to have to print the score and study that. By training, I am a choral person ... and am reminded of the "Laudate pueri" (4th movement) of Mozart's Solemn Vespers where he does this in the voice parts.
@waflan
Жыл бұрын
@@MonteAGarrett i believe its around mm360!
@CougheePls
Жыл бұрын
I didn't even realize it was a fugato, very pleasing to hear! My favourite part in classical music is the Millionen X Ode to Joy double fugue in the last movement of Beethoven's 9th
@KrystofDreamJourney
Жыл бұрын
Mine as well. Beethoven’s 9th, IVth movement “Ode to Joy” especially rehearsal marks K and L. Tears every time… Beyond human comprehension. Also entire Passacaglia in C Minor - J.S.Bach.
@schwindsichtigaderechte5293
Жыл бұрын
Wow! Thanks for explaining some of the intricacies of that piece! I've grown up with classical music and love it, but the way you pick it apart before putting it back together again just makes it a lot easier to understand why it is considered such a great body of art. Thanks for that!
@javiermedina5313
Жыл бұрын
Mozart is an absolute master of the orchestral counterpoint.
@jimw2566
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! I've tickets to experience Mozart's Jupiter with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra next month and have been binging on various versions and explanations in preparation. I love this!
@geoffstemen3652
Жыл бұрын
Music so noble yet exhilarating, in a word Jovial!
@AbdelOveAllhan
Жыл бұрын
For extended greatness in music I turn to Handel in such works as the 'Amen' chorus at the very end of his Messiah. The contrapuntal manipulation including fugal and canonic imitation, stretto and inversion all to serve a massive dramatic orchestral/choral effect is overwhelming.
@3sierra15
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for opening my ears to this wonderful piece. Truly, I will never hear it the same way again.
@jamesmclean5790
Жыл бұрын
I could just nod in agreement when you revealed the piece in your claim. This passage is the only music in Mozart’s repertoire that has brought me to tears, for it’s creativity and execution. When I first sat down and gave this symphony all of my attention, as a young teenager in the 70’s, the thought struck me that Mozart might have known this was his last symphony and was pressed to give all he had left within him into the score. It truly is the moment in the performance I always anticipate. Hence, I judge a performance by this passage - it’s clarity and precision.
@DanJS
Жыл бұрын
Love this video. One of my favourite 30 seconds of music as well. An absolute masterpiece this work is!
@pawkie2
Жыл бұрын
I always felt it was special but having no musical training do not have the ear to pick out the genious. Thank you.
@stubbsmusic543
Жыл бұрын
Glorious! Thank you for breaking this down so visually.
@judylav5
Жыл бұрын
I love your explanations… I listen and hear the music differently…better. Thank you.
@colinadevivero
Жыл бұрын
I really like your work. Please keep up the good work. Your energy and easy conversational approach is very helpful 😊
@danjtitchener
Жыл бұрын
The best score annotation video I have EVER seen. Great job.
@enjoyclassicalmusic6006
Жыл бұрын
Could I recommend Smalin on youtube, who really makes fantastic classical music animation videos..
@ltrizzle12
Жыл бұрын
Mozart only lived 35 years. Almost 36.
@RaysDad
Жыл бұрын
The first movement of symphony 40 is also complex, and quite emotional.
@sjaaktrekhaak253
Жыл бұрын
Oh that's a doozy, that one.
@eameece
7 ай бұрын
yes indeed, and we should remember how deeply the entire last half of the 41 finale touches the heart too. I think some folks miss this, or don't comment on it enough.
@dauphindauphin6607
Жыл бұрын
Great composers dying so young means there is still so much great classical music to be written !
@ignaciourena5692
Жыл бұрын
"The greatest 30 seconds of Classical Music" ... maybe ... this is celestial music ...
@cufflink44
Жыл бұрын
Very well done video! Thank you!
@bbbartolo
Жыл бұрын
reminds me when I realized how much Mozart had managed to pack into the finale of Cosi fan Tutte - it seemed in every line there was a new emotion represented, and yet it flowed as one melody. Now I have to listen to 41 from the beginning...
@cindipeckham1296
Жыл бұрын
Incredibly satisfying and joyous! Thank you!
@basstian
Жыл бұрын
Magnificent analysis!
@truBador2
Жыл бұрын
Well done. Love that Jupiter ever since muh student years. The main theme, if you should somehow manage to forget it, is the pitches of the keys of the four Brahms symphonies in a row: C - d - F - e. Any more videos like this one are welcome. Thanks.
@CAGED1702
Жыл бұрын
Walter Lloyd Gross "borrowed" the same intervals (in Eb) for his song "Tenderly" in 1946. Please take this with a pinch of salt... 😉
@dykegolfer
Жыл бұрын
I have loved classical music for over 65 years and final movement of Jupiter never ceases to amaze me. If I could only listen to 1 piece of music for rest of my life..this is it. How can 1 human brain create such genius as this.!!
@katrinat.3032
Жыл бұрын
I know! I drive in my car with it blasting! I love it
@bruce_c_in_nz
Жыл бұрын
Are you familiar with Schubert's string quintet? It would be my choice of the only piece. Although there is some doubling, most of the work shows what can be achieved with five independent voices. He's probably not as clever as Mozart, but in my reckoning he stands out in the beauty department head and shoulders above him.
@beckylink
Жыл бұрын
@@bruce_c_in_nz NOBODY stands out head and shoulders above Mozart in the Beauty department!! Impossible. 😊
@beckylink
Жыл бұрын
Mozart’s beauty makes me weep either with joy or sorrow, every time. He had a gift straight from God.
@beckylink
Жыл бұрын
@Gary Allen Who’s “we?”
@hoangkimviet8545
Жыл бұрын
Exceptional video idea.
@RichardASalisbury1
Жыл бұрын
In the last few years, I've come to believe that the "Jupiter" can stand alongside any of Beethoven's symphonies and not suffer by the comparison.
@arcturus4067
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video! Very well and clearly explained. This part of the symphony is my favourite and it's a masterpiece of counterpoint!
@SKySWiM
Жыл бұрын
Great job analyzing this work. Even though I was brought up on classical music (playing it also on piano and trombone), and even playing many years in various bands and orchestras, I never cease to be amazed at how much I am missing in much of the music. As with many, I am not a big fan of most of Mozart's music. But then again, I admit that I probably have not actually broken down any of his symphonic works like you have. It seems that Mozart's genius hides in its SEEMING simplicity. But I would argue that this is both the main good and bad aspect of classical music. There is so much subtlety, that most people with NO musical training (or at least little exposure) in classical music, that they find it BORING. I wish it was not so, but it seems to me that it is next to impossible to open the eyes (or should I say ears) of the masses to the GENIUS of Mozart and other classical composers, without having them IMMERSED in classical music, and at least to some degree, formally trained in it. Along with many of my peers, I feel that it is my duty to keep classical music alive by my performing it. But it seems that more than that is needed. Education, in hopefully fun and interesting way, seems to be needed. Thanks to the entertainment industry, THEY have effectively decided on what kind of music people should be listening to. Even early school education has abandoned classical music, best I can tell. And before I am called a snob, I do enjoy many other genres of music, and even compose in a lot of them, sometime mixing aspects of classical music into it. I guess what I am finally getting around to saying, is that I think this video (and possibly your others, I just discovered your channel) is serving an important part in educating the masses, regardless of what level of musical background they might have. I encourage you to continue your important work!
@ThecatofCheshire
Жыл бұрын
Hmm...I think the algorithm gave me a gem of a channel! From the bottom of my heart I wish you all the success sir!
@drzlecuti
Жыл бұрын
Thanks--that was very enjoyable. The contrapuntal combination of all the themes towards the end is indeed a tour de force and shows how thoroughly Mozart had absorbed Bach's method. Each theme is made so that it will later work with the others--avoiding traffic jams, in a phrase I heard Elliott Carter once use to describe how he wrote his string quartets that were actually double duos.
@johncoppola8105
Жыл бұрын
I always thought this part of 41 was absolute genius as well. I wait anxiously every time for it to arrive.
@dhoffheimerj
Жыл бұрын
A fine small lecture on a fine contender for the best 30 seconds.
@jtt6650
Жыл бұрын
This movement is #1 on my deathbed playlist
@eameece
7 ай бұрын
A fine gateway to the life beyond
@eye_sing
Жыл бұрын
Loved this! Thank you!
@Hailey_Paige_1937
Жыл бұрын
My favorite 30 seconds is the beginning of “Lever du jour” from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé. ❤
@DougHanson2769
Жыл бұрын
30 fantastic seconds Beautiful Fugue
@emitch9213
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, such a pleasure of simplicity for new ears and old ears.
@jamesmoran8294
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting it in the description so I can skip the video and take you up on your recommendation.
@1685mymusic
Жыл бұрын
Conducting this gives me more joy than almost anything! Xxx😊😊😊😊😊
@MrPatrick1414
Ай бұрын
truly unbelievable integration of themes
@rathinbasu8299
Жыл бұрын
Wonderfully explained! You've revealed the underlying beauty for us lay persons to enjoy. Thank you for such generous sharing of your knowledge.
@johncoppola8105
Жыл бұрын
Mozart was a real genius of music. No hype, no exaggeration for posterity. Really genius.
@achantus1
Жыл бұрын
I first heard this when I was 17. I didn't understand all the subtilities, of cource, but I knew instinctively that this was something special. Now I understand that you have to have a sence of Plato's "The Good, The True and The Beautiful" to fully appreciate somerhing like this.
@michaelkum
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this very well done video showing Mozarts genius in a nutshell!
@bunkyman8097
Жыл бұрын
My favorite 30 seconds (actually longer than 30 seconds) of classical music is Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta, the last movement at the Allegretto. This is the theme that starts the piece. if you dont have goosebumps when this ends you are dead! Treat yourself and listen to the entire composition while following the score. It is a testament to mankind and I always feel empowered at the last chord. I can't imagine hearing it in an orchestra hall live. Im sure I would die, but that's ok! Enjoy this powerful piece of music!
@ignaciourena5692
Жыл бұрын
I just felt in love with the Leoš Janáček - Sinfonietta Op 60 ... thank you
@leslieackerman4189
Жыл бұрын
Very well created. It unravels GENIUS
@otherworlder1
Жыл бұрын
Always gives me chills. ❤️❤️❤️
@CRAEager
Жыл бұрын
Wunderbar! 🥲 Thank you!
@fryerre
Жыл бұрын
Very nicely done. I mean the video. The music is genius, of course..
@judyjones5089
Жыл бұрын
Listening to this piece is like looking at the repetetiveness of variegated yarn. Very cool!
@Lyphatma
Жыл бұрын
I couldn't stop hearing your 1st theme each time...
@smartsmartie7142
Жыл бұрын
I love this simphony, it is so great
@SRenee-dq8bl
3 ай бұрын
-- You had me at Mozart.!!
@reznik232
Жыл бұрын
"Genius" is such an overused word, thrown about seemingly any time someone does something cleverly or well. Mozart is one of the very very very few people I feel is worthy of the word absolutely.
@KrystofDreamJourney
Жыл бұрын
Agree ! A Mother says : “My kid is a genius ! He Can name all of the U.S. Presidents from memory !”
@KayNewnam
Жыл бұрын
And, although more typical of Beethoven, Mozart previews the 4-note theme in the Trio of the Minuet. :).
@grahamsax
Жыл бұрын
I wasn't aware of this but it is true! Thanks!
@OlivierDALET
Жыл бұрын
I think he does similar in the 40th.
@Bwv1046
Жыл бұрын
Very nice, mine is the last 30 seconds of Beethoven's eroica finale
@hjo4104
Жыл бұрын
the whole coda is just tonic-dominant-tonic-dominant... that yelling of brutally banal harmonies is not even comparable with this fugato
@Bwv1046
Жыл бұрын
@@hjo4104 Thank you for your opinion sir but I adore revolutionary music and strong loud symphonies just like Beethoven's third it's my most favorite piece I equally love both Mozart and Beethoven and I don't think its appropriate to make a comparison between two of the greatest composers of all time they're like two sides of the same coin
@verstengenericks
Жыл бұрын
🎉 I have always loved but never appreciated this music as I can now after watching this video 🎉 Thank you! 😄
@drgeoffangel5422
Жыл бұрын
What you described most clearly, was the work of a genius! which Mozart was. I firmly believe that all the best, or should I say, the most popular music composers were given the same gift of music! You cannot contrive such a masterpiece by thinking about it, or trying to engineer it, it is a divine gift, and I believe that the music is already in them, just waiting to come out!
@schrysafis
Жыл бұрын
Video about Bach's Art of Fugue? Especially Contrapunctus XI, XIV. This video brought me back old memories as a young piano student, Mozart was the first composer that I had communication with at first glance and hearing.
@riverstun
Жыл бұрын
The greatest couple of minutes are the last section of the last contrapunctus in the art of fugue. The first part is a fugue on theme 1, the second part is a double fugue on theme 2 and on theme 1. The third part, he introduces a third theme (his own name) and then combines it with themes 1 and 2 - and at the point where the manuscript ends, it is playing theme 1, theme 2 in canon with itself, and theme 3. This fugue is unfinished, but it has been shown that you can not only add a fourth theme (the main theme of the work as a whole), BUT you can invert all four themes at the same time. What Mozart does here is trivial by comparison. A four note theme, a couple of trills, and a few scales. Mozart achieved far better elsewhere. For example, the end of Don Giovanni, and of course the Requiem. But for combining melodic lines, there's just no comparison with Bach. For Beethoven, the finale of the Choral symphony is exceptional. Especially where the 4 soloists go crazy right at the end. "Wo dein sanfter flugel weilt". The music is on the point of disintegration, but it just ends breaking your heart. Mozart, again, does nothing close to that here.
@derykbarker9634
Жыл бұрын
Surely the whole point of this movement, musicologically speaking, is that it is a brilliant melding of fugue *and* sonata form, not that it is a great fugue? The only comparable music I know is the last movement of Bruckner's 5th.
@francescaemc2
Жыл бұрын
Have always adored this. Refreshing that it's not Bach. I am addicted to Bach-- Have subscribed. Thank you.
@OctopusContrapunctus
Жыл бұрын
I grew up with the Jupiter symphony and, though i am well over my "classicism superiority" Phase, this symhponyhas always place in my Heart. Hope you'll do more if this videos.
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