Song of the week: Lied der Trennung (W.A. Mozart) - K. Jarnot, A. Schmalcz
It was bound to happen: two weeks in a row calling on Mozart and now, in the 3rd, he turns to be our man. If this post had been written in July maybe I would have taken advantage of the relaxing summer to share the serenade from
Don Giovanni, as I did a couple of summers ago with the
Tanzlied des Pierrot from
Die tote Stadt, but as we are at the peak of the season, I will share a Lied
comme il faut.
Mozart wrote about thirty songs, distributed throughout all his life: from An die Freude, composed when he was twelve, until the last three (
Sehnsucht nach
dem Frühlinge,
Im Frühlingsanfang and
Das Kinderspiel) written on January 14th, 1791. I would say that his record was three songs in a day, but for him, it was usual to [...]