Mozart / 5 Contredanses for Orchestra, K. 609

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Five Contredanses for Orchestra, K. 609 (1791) 00:00 - No. 1 in C major 01:06 - No. 2 in E-flat major 02:03 - No. 3 in D major 03:13 - No. 4 in C major 05:47 - No. 5 in G major Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg, dir. Sándor Végh (1990) “At the age of five, Mozart had started his career as a composer with attempts at minuets. Minuet movements are a component of his sonatas, symphonies, chamber music works and serenades. Themes in all kinds of musical works incorporate dance forms. But Mozart also composed genuine dance music, for example, for the carnival in Salzburg in 1769, but more especially during the last years of his life, when this was one of his duties as Imperial Chamber Musician. The minuet which was originally a folk-dance from the French province of Poitou, was regarded in the 18th century as the ’queen of dances’, a symbol of grace and dignity. The floating rhythm which characterizes