In Reply to: RE: Who needs home keys? And why I hate Mozart...... posted by rbolaw on January 3, 2017 at 12:38:45:
Really, I think he was far outdone in this respect by Schubert, not to mention by composers in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as disparate as Dvorak (beginning of the slow movement of the New World Symphony) and Rachmaninoff (beginning of the slow movement of the Second Piano Concerto). Those are examples of extraordinary modulations IMHO. Mozart, not so much.
I of course agree with you about the slow intro to the "Dissonant" String Quartet, less so about the late piano concertos. In fact, the finale of the D-minor Piano Concerto in particular always grates on me, as Mozart loses his nerve and is unable to resist bringing in that trite little D-major theme at the end. Ugh! If he's going to write a concerto in a minor key, it's better for him to do what he does in the C-minor Concerto and keep his nerve up (in the minor key) through to the end.
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Follow Ups
- Funny, I feel that Mozart's modulations are only rarely striking - Chris from Lafayette 14:06:27 01/03/17 (14)
- Ooooooh ... - rbolaw 19:05:56 01/03/17 (1)
- As you know, I'm never far from the dark woods! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 00:08:33 01/04/17 (0)
- RE: Funny, I feel that Mozart's modulations are only rarely striking - Travis 16:04:54 01/03/17 (10)
- Was responding to a point in the previous post - did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 19:25:54 01/03/17 (9)
- RE: Oh, you thought I was awake. nt - Travis 07:46:58 01/04/17 (8)
- I guess I've now been disabused of that notion [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 08:59:54 01/04/17 (7)
- RE: I'm not into disabusing. nt - Travis 12:13:06 01/04/17 (6)
- And yet, somehow, I've managed to become disabused [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 13:21:54 01/04/17 (5)
- As punishment: - rbolaw 14:36:34 01/05/17 (4)
- Sorry - no can do (no time right now). And besides. . . - Chris from Lafayette 10:07:32 01/06/17 (3)
- Right, and Mozart's are the LATTER - rbolaw 15:13:17 01/07/17 (2)
- Wow! - so Schubert is chopped liver? - Chris from Lafayette 18:01:49 01/07/17 (1)
- Mozart came first. - rbolaw 14:45:00 01/10/17 (0)
- Really cool one in the 3rd mov't of the PC 25. nt - jdaniel@jps.net 15:08:51 01/03/17 (0)