Mozart

I've been ripping some burned CDs that have been laying around, some unlabeled, and discovering some great music I forgot I had. The Stevie from yesterday is an example.

Another I've just been listening to is a great 2-CD set of Mozart Solo Piano Music written during the "Vienna Years" 1782-1789 when he was 28-35.

The Sonata in Bb Maj K570 is really great. That last movement, the Allegretto is super cool. The music sounds like it was written by someone who was a master improvisor (which, of course, he was). There's an openness to it, freewheeling, variously brash and beautiful. His use of syncopation and chromaticism (separately) clearly point the way to 150 years later, on the continent of North America, where, in his time, a country that had just been born.

Man, I just noticed that the lick Mozart uses in measures 79/80 (3:09-3:12) is almost exactly like the lick in measure 2/3 of the BeBop classic Donna Lee, written in the 1940's.

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