Beim Auszug in das Feld - Knowledge (XXG)

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The big pause between "... rief Joseph seinen Heeren" ("...Joseph summoned his armies") and "sie eilten flügelschnell herbei" (“they hurried quickly to him”) has the effect of an irritating delay in the alleged lightning-quick and eager drawing-up of the army, while the violent and somewhat grotesque outburst right at the start of the piano postlude can be seen as having subversive potential.

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Symphony), completed the day before "Beim Auszug in das Feld", may be patriotic music prompted by the war; she observes that he began work on it the month that the war broke out (February 1788) and places the work in "the Austrian tradition of grand C-major symphonies, scored for trumpets and drums

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regarded as a commission. It was intended as propaganda for young people to support the unpopular Turkish campaign of Emperor Joseph II in 1788. Whether Mozart himself took the commission and subject-matter entirely seriously is open to doubt, if the subtle and humorous music is anything to go by.

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Beales' essay "Court, Government and Society in Mozart's Vienna" suggests that a certain degree of taboo has shrouded the work, based perhaps in scholars' reluctance to imagine Mozart participating in the creation of truculent military propaganda. One early published English-language edition

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eliminated the lyrics entirely, substituting a poem entitled "The Maiden and the Faun". Subsequent recordings and publications have omitted certain verses in a way that "minimiz the song's bellicosity". One apologist viewpoint is offered by pianist

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After Mozart's death, the work went missing and was restored to the awareness of scholars and musicians only early in the 20th century; further decades were needed before the work was printed in standard scholarly editions.

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describes the lyrics as "manifestly propagandist, directed at persuading young men of the justice of the emperor's cause". Another English translation, in metrical verse, may be found in his book

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Mozart entered the composition into his personal catalog of completed works on 11 August 1788, one day after he had similarly recorded the completion of his celebrated

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Mozart set 18 stanzas of verse by an unknown poet; each repetition of the music covers two stanzas, so the music must be sung nine times over to cover the whole poem.

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The work is widely unknown today and is seldom performed or recorded; Beales calls it "one of the most obscure of Mozart's published and completed works".

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The work includes a full translation of the lyrics into English as well as a facsimile of the original printed edition.

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recording of the song; he suggests that while the words are bellicose, Mozart's setting is (subversively) not so:

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military band"; it was sung by the comedian Friedrich Baumann in a patriotic concert in the

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Wochenblatt für Kinder zur angenehmen und lehrreichen Beschäftigung in ihren Freystunden

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552, is a military-patriotic song composed for tenor voice and piano accompaniment by

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The song was one of three patriotic works written by Mozart in response to the war.

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writes that Mozart "paid patriotic tribute when he wrote the orchestral

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that had been launched by the Austrian emperor (and Mozart's patron)

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Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–179

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employing the fanfares and rhythmic gestures of the military".

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And peace was granted him by all the people of the world,

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The enemy portrayed in the song: the Turks advance on

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Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Europe

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Enlightenment and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Europe

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