Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 33 &35 "Haffner"

The nest becomes too small: "I do not want to know anything about Salzburg anymore. I hate the archbishop to the verge of frenzy, "Wolfgang Amadé Mozart wrote on 9 May 1781 from Vienna to his father in Salzburg. Finally freed from the overwhelming feeling of the confinement of his position as a court musician in Salzburg, Mozart saw in Vienna a rosy future, not least in his marital status with Constanze Weber, rejected by the father. The last two Salzburg years of Mozart were musically exceedingly productive. Especially in orchestral music he used in a pleasurable stream of creativity, he had learned in the years before in Mannheim and Paris: many symphonies like those in B flat major KV319 point the way to the future and atmospheric serenades, such as the conclusion The Posthornserenade, which was created during the academic year of the university, shows that the Salzburg life must have had pleasant sides as well.

“After studying in Rome, Brussels and Vienna and Henryk Szeryng in Paris, Iona Brown pursued a successful career as a violin soloist, before becoming Artistic Director of the Academy of St. Martin in 1974” — Academy of St. Martin in the Fields