Mozart: Symphony No. 35 Haffner | Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Published 2020-08-13
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, known as the Haffner Symphony, in 1782. As early as 1776 he had been commissioned to compose a serenade for the wedding of the Salzburg bridal couple Franz Xaver Späth and Maria Elisabeth Haffner, the daughter of Salzburg's mayor Sigmund Haffner. The Haffner Serenade is Mozart's most extensive serenade (KV 250) and has eight movements.
Six years later, he was to compose another serenade on the occasion of the award of the title of nobility "Edler von Innbachhausen" to Sigmund Haffner Junior. Mozart arranged it as a symphony by omitting the movements 2 to 4 or 5 of the serenade composed for Haffner's wedding, thus creating an independent work.
Bernard Haitink began his conducting career with Netherlands Radio: he became chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in 1957. Later he was principal conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and held this position for 27 years. Today he is patron of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Honorary Conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Bernard Haitink has also been Music Director of the Glyndebourne Festival and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Chief Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He is an honorary member of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and since 2019, the Vienna Philharmonic. He has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award.
00:00 Introduction
00:49 Allegro con spirito
09:25 Andante
15:33 Menuetto
18:33 Presto
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All Comments (21)
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Imagine living 230 years ago. We wouldn’t be able to listen to any composition any time we want on YouTube. But we would be able to see Mozart live. Worth it.
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RIP dear maestro Bernard Haitink! His Mozart was so special but has never got the attention it deserves.
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A giant among conductors
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Rest In Peace, Maestro Haitink. Thanks for many great concerts with the CSO.
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When I cry a lot, when I get very confused, when words overlap, I listen to Mozart.
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the genius of mozart just melts my heart
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Mozart is the human lullaby and comfort .
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Listening to classical music is like embarking on a journey through the epochs, where the melodies become portals to the emotions of bygone eras. 🚀🎶
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This music makes me proud to be a human being. I love Mozart’s music. It’s beautiful when it’s joyful or sorrowful. And it always makes sense. It’s like a language without words.
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Bravo! Haitink, Gentle man in a classic music.
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I was captured by the Haffner Symphony when I was around 12 or 13 in about 1957 and I especially remember being completely enthralled listening for the first time to an LP sent to our house that was sent in the post by the World Record Club of the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mozart, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. Each month I was always excited to receive the next classical offering. As a result, I became totally hooked on Classical music that has remained with me all my life. I went on to learn to play the piano (badly), but always derived great pleasure and solace from classical music. I’ve always been very grateful to my mother who subscribed our family to the World Record Club that first introduced me to the wonderful world of Classical music.
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Mozart non era di questo mondo, MA di unaltro pianeta UN GRANDE GENIO.
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A living legend conducts one of the world’s greatest orchestras.
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One of Europe's greatest orchestras in one of its greatest concert halls.
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Thirty years ago or so in the UK the BBC would broadcast the Concertgebouw's Christmas Day concert live with Bernard Haitink conducting, it was a highlight of my Christmas Day.
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RIP maestro, you were a great one. What a long live of music you gave us, even though it was for 92 years, your legacy will remain for immeasurable years to come, thank you.
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Happy birthday Mozart, 266 today. And thank you Mr Haitink, a musician able to do justice to the incomparable Wolfgang Amadeus.
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Composed for my family Such a musical honour.
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RIP Bernard Haitink 1929-2021 It's not that I'm shocked - he lived 92 years in this life. I'm very saddened to hear of his passing though. Haitink was one of the greatest conductors of our age and a true ambassador of his art. Humble and faithful to the music in every situation, his sober and revealing visions of such a wide range of repertoire has left us with a rich recorded legacy of some of the greatest reference recordings, made with the greatest orcheatras in the world. And that's without even touching on his eminently distinguished career with the great Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Since the very beginning of my journey with orchestral music, my record collection has gotten steadily more littered with Haitink readings. Despite his notable absence of flamboyance or histrionics - dare I say ego, even - with Haitink, you can safely go for absolutely ANY of his recordings, without ANY hesitation or need for prior research or reviews, and rest assured in the knowledge that you'll ALWAYS be presented with an outstanding, emotionally intelligent and profound rendition of whatever that piece may be. There's not many conductors in that bracket. I was just lucky enough to catch Haitink live a couple of times, including a stunning Bruckner 6th symphony with the Dresden Staatskapelle. I'm very sad to hear he has left us.
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My friends and I used to listen to recordings of Maestro Haitink and his orchestra back in 1977 when I was a music student at Northwestern Music School. What an amazing run he had!
