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What is Classical Music Discoveries about?

For those yearning to explore the vast universe of classical music, look no further. Classical Music Discoveries is like a map to the stars, guiding listeners through a myriad of symphonies, operas, and concertos. Each episode unfurls a new chapter from the rich tapestry of classical music, featuring works of celebrated geniuses like Beethoven and Mozart, to showcasing hidden gems from lesser-known composers. Imagine you’re a musical archaeologist, digging through centuries of history and cultural nuances. But here’s the best part: you don’t have to be a music theorist to appreciate it. With friendly commentary and fun facts knitted throughout, this podcast illuminates the magic of classical music in an engaging and digestible way.

Who should listen to Classical Music Discoveries?

You don’t have to be a maestro or a music student to tune into Classical Music Discoveries. If you’ve ever lost yourself in the sweeping melodies of a symphony orchestra or been moved by a virtuoso’s intense piano solo, this podcast is for you. Aspiring musicians will definitely glean inspiration from the wealth of content. But it’s also perfect for anyone who simply loves good stories and wants to learn more about the world around them, one note at a time. So, if the soundtrack of your life includes anything from grand operas to serene chamber music, why not add Classical Music Discoveries to your playlist?

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Latest Episodes:

Episode 123: 13123 The Miracle Symphonies of Mozart Dec 16, 2020

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Although Mozart composed over 600 works, many of his compositions have not survived the 200 plus years of human history. Natural cataclysmic events can destroy much of man’s history, sadly, it is our own political events that destroy our greatest artistic creations. Mozart’s symphonies 54, 42, 9, and 12 are prime examples of war destroying art. It seems that no matter how much beauty man creates, the tragedies and ugliness of war continually destroys our finest creations. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1134/The_Miracle_Symphonies_of_Mozart.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Episode 121: 13121 Mozart: Mithridates, King of Pontus Dec 16, 2020

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Mithridates, King of Pontus is a 3-act opera composed by the 14-year-old Mozart while touring Italy in 1770. The opera was an instant success being performed 21 times. Most musicians in Italy were very confident that Mozart’s opera would be a complete failure. How could any 14-year-old boy compose a successful opera, a feat that had taken other composers almost a lifetime to master? Now, like elsewhere in Europe, composers much older than Mozart, had become humbled and often enraged, at the overwhelming God-given talents of Mozart. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1132/Mozart%3A_Mithridates%2C_King_of_Pontus_.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Episode 120: 13120 Mozart: The 4 Symphonies in D Dec 16, 2020

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Symphony No. 11 in D major, K. 84/73q, was at one time considered unquestionably to be the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Its status has, however, been challenged, and (as of 2008) remains uncertain. It is believed to date from 1770 and may have been written in Milan or Bologna if it is a genuine Mozart work. An early manuscript from Vienna attributes the work to Wolfgang, but nineteenth-century copies of the score attribute it respectively to Leopold Mozart and to Carl Dittersdorf. Neal Zaslaw writes: "A comparison of the results of two stylistic analyses of the work's first movement with analyses of unquestionably genuine first movements of the period by the three composers suggests that Wolfgang is the most likely of the three to have been the composer of K73q". Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1131/Mozart%3A_The_4_Symphonies_in_D.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Episode 119: 13119 Mozart: Piano Concertos 1 - 4 Dec 16, 2020

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began learning how to compose piano and harpsichord concertos when he was 11 years old. Unlike his studies of the art of opera composition by other composers, his father, Leopold, handled young Mozart’s education of the complex structural problems of composing in the piano concerto form. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1130/Mozart%3A_Piano_Concertos_1_-_4.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Episode 117: 13117 Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit Des ersten und fürnehmsten Gebotes (The Obligation of the First and Foremost Commandment), K. 35 Dec 15, 2020

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Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (complete title in historical spelling: Die Schuldigkeit Des ersten und fürnehmsten Gebotes; The Obligation of the First and Foremost Commandment), K. 35, is a sacred musical play (geistliches Singspiel) composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1767 when he was 11 years old. It is Mozart's first opera or, more specifically, sacred drama, as is suggested by the name. The libretto is now attributed to Ignatz Anton von Weiser [de], although Johann Adam Wieland or Jakob Anton Marianus Wimmer had been suggested earlier. (The title page of the libretto ascribes it only to "J.A.W.".) Only the first part of the opera was composed by Mozart; the second and third parts were contributed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser respectively. However, these other two parts have not survived. Part 1 of the opera was first performed on March 12, 1767, in the Knight's Hall of the Palace of the Archbishop, the Salzburg Residenz. Part 2 was performed on March 19, and part 3 on March 26. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1129/Mozart%3A_Die_Schuldigkeit_Des_ersten_und_f%C3%BCrnehmsten_Gebotes_%28The_Obligation_of_the_First_and_Foremost_Commandment%29%2C_K._35.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Episode 118: 13118 Mozart: Apollo et Hyacinthus, K. 38 Dec 15, 2020

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Apollo et Hyacinthus, K. 38, is an opera written in 1767 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was 11 years old at the time. It is Mozart's first true opera (when one considers that Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots is simply a sacred drama). It is in three acts. As is suggested by the name, the opera is based upon the Greek myth of Hyacinth and Apollo as told by Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses. Interpreting this work, Rufinus Widl wrote the libretto in Latin. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1128/Mozart%3A_Apollo_et_Hyacinthus%2C_K._38.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Episode 116: 13116 Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne (Bastien and Bastienne), K. 50 Dec 15, 2020

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Bastien und Bastienne (Bastien and Bastienne), K. 50 (revised in 1964 to K. 46b) is a one-act singspiel, a comic opera, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Bastien und Bastienne was one of Mozart's earliest operas, written in 1768 when he was only twelve years old. It was allegedly commissioned by Viennese physician and 'magnetist' Dr. Franz Mesmer (who himself would later be parodied in Così fan tutte) as a satire of the 'pastoral' genre then prevalent, and specifically as a parody of the opera Le devin du village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The German libretto is by Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller and Johann Andreas Schachtner, based on Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne by Justine Favart and Harny de Guerville. After its supposed premiere in Mesmer's garden theater (that is only corroborated by an unverified account of Nissen), it was not revived again until 1890. It is not clear whether this piece was performed in Mozart's lifetime. The first known performance was on 2 October 1890 at Architektenhaus in Berlin.

Episode 115: 13115 Mozart: Symphonies in B-flat and 8 Dec 15, 2020

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The Symphony B♭ major, K. 319?, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and dated on 9 July 1779. The Symphony No. 8 in D major, (K. 48), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is dated December 13, 1768. It was written in Vienna, at a time when the family were already due to have returned home to Salzburg. In a letter to his friend in Salzburg, Lorenz Hagenauer, Leopold Mozart says of the delay that "we could not bring our affairs to a conclusion earlier, even though I endeavored strenuously to do so." The autograph of the Symphony No. 8 is today preserved in the Staatsbibliothek Preusischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1126/Mozart%3A_Symphonies_in_B-flat_and_8.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Episode 114: 13114 Mozart: Mass in C minor, K. 139 "Waisenhaus" (Missa Solemnis) Dec 15, 2020

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The Missa solemnis in C minor, K. 139/47a, is a mass composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the summer of 1768 in Vienna. It is scored for SATB soloists, SATB choir, violin I and II, 2 violas, 2 oboes, 2 trumpets, 2 clarini (high trumpets), 3 trombones colla parte, timpani and basso continuo. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1125/Mozart%3A_Mass_in_C_minor%2C_K._139_%22Waisenhaus%22_%28Missa_Solemnis%29.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

Episode 113: 13113 The Mozart Family Lambach Mystery Dec 15, 2020

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Cataloging the Mozart Symphonies and determining the difference between a symphony by Amadeus and his father Leopold can lead to some unusual investigations by modern musicologists. Here we offer our listeners a case worthy of the best detectives found in any mystery novel. So, put on you sleuthing hat and let’s see what thoughts you may have on this specific case, which we will call “The Lambach Mystery.” The date is January 1769 and the Mozart family began their journey between Salzburg and Vienna. As was customary, they stopped at the Lambach Abbey in Upper Austria for room and meals. Monasteries, at this time, offered rooms and meals for travelers and maintained a chapel for the liturgy and entertainment. This stop over is not mentioned in the correspondence of the Mozart family and is only known through two manuscripts left in the monastery as a gift, or as payment, for room and board for the night. These two manuscripts were found at the beginning of the 20th century in the archives in the Lambach Abbey. One manuscript, the Old Lambach Symphony, was shown to be composed by Amadeus. The other manuscript, the New Lambach Symphony, was shown to be composed by Leopold. For many years, this was naturally assumed to be correct and was entered into the Mozart catalog as such. However, in 1964 Anna Abert published a new hypothesis that the title pages of the two Lambach Symphonies were either accidentally or purposefully reversed. She noted that the “New Lambach Symhony” was rather archaic in style and thus “less good” than the “Old Lambach Symphony” which was full of multiple themes and youthful inventiveness. So, dear listener, we put it to you. Do you think Leopold may have switched the title pages in order to take claim for a much better symphony? Perhaps while at the monastery, Leopold did his usual amount of bragging and couldn’t let the monks think that the lesser of the two symphonies was his. Or maybe the title switch was purely accidental during the coming years? Maybe the two manuscripts were dropped and pages became mixed by an unknowing monk only trying to rectify a brief mistake? Or maybe the confusion of trying to save the manuscripts during the Nazi occupation of Austria was to blame? We will let our listeners decide on which symphony belongs to which composer. Is the “New Lambach Symphony” really Leopold’s or does it belong to Amadeus? First, we will listen to the “Old Lambach Symphony” which was originally attributed to Amadeus. Now, we will listen to the “New Lambach Symphony” which is attributed to Leopold Mozart. After you have heard both symphonies, please leave a comment about this broadcast letting us know your thoughts as to who wrote which symphony. We will give the results in a later broadcast. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p134/13113_The_Lambach_Mystery.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you! http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

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