This programme presents a combination of works for fortepiano by Mozart and Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814): two famous composers of their time who (at least in Mozart's eyes) had a kind of rivalry when they met in Mannheim in 1777. As a renowned member of the "Mannheim School", Vogler was an extremely innovative composer, music theorist, important teacher and famous performer on the keyboard instruments of his time.

Mozart came to Mannheim in 1777 in search of a position and soon met Vogler, who held the high rank of second Kapellmeister in the Mannheim court chapel. Mozart must have been jealous of Vogler, who was only seven years his senior, because in letters to his father, Mozart immediately labelled Vogler a charlatan. Mozart's contempt for Vogler ruined Vogler's reputation posthumously, so that there is very little interest in Vogler's music today. Nevertheless, he had many famous pupils, including Peter von Winter and Carl Maria von Weber, and his many supporters included Robert Schumann.

Program

Georg Joseph Vogler (1749-1814)
Ausschnitte aus "Pieces de clavecin" (1798, Stockholm)

I. Pastorale

II. Barcarolle de Venise

V. -Min far han var en Vestgöthe han han: Swedish song

IX. Air barbaresque

XI. March of Charles XII to Narvae

XIII. March of the Knights of the Order of Seraphim in Sweden

XIV. Quarndansen: Swedish Dance

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata in C-Dur KV 309
gewidmet Rose Cannabich in Mannheim (1777)

I. Allegro con spirito

II. Andante un poco adagio

III. Rondo. Allegretto grazioso