{"id":4192,"date":"2012-01-08T20:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2018-08-04T01:58:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T05:58:40","slug":"mozart%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9chaffner%e2%80%9d-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4192","title":{"rendered":"Mozart\u2019s \u201cHaffner\u201d Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When I first began lis\u00adten\u00ading to Mozart, the \u201cHaffn\u00ader\u201d Sym\u00adpho\u00adny #35 (K.385) did not make as strong an impres\u00adsion on me as #36, #38, or #40 did.&nbsp;Now that I lis\u00adten close\u00adly to a per\u00adfor\u00admance by Neville Mar\u00adriner, I see that I was not \u201cget\u00adting it.\u201d&nbsp;It\u2019s not just a suped-up ser\u00ade\u00adnade, though Mozart did use a quick\u00adly-com\u00adposed ser\u00ade\u00adnade as its basis.&nbsp;It def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly belongs with the \u201cLinz\u201d and the \u201cPrague\u201d sym\u00adphonies as part of a group where Mozart remold\u00aded the sym\u00adpho\u00adny from the suite-like pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion he had learned from Haydn into the tight\u00adly uni\u00adfied and log\u00adi\u00adcal form that he was to pass on to Beethoven.&nbsp;The mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal is cheer\u00adful, ele\u00adgant, and dance-like, but the treat\u00adment is far from friv\u00ado\u00adlous or slight.&nbsp;And, on lis\u00adten\u00ading close\u00adly, I can see all sorts of sub\u00adtle ways in which ele\u00adments in each move\u00adment refer to the oth\u00aders.&nbsp;The end\u00ading <em>presto<\/em>, with its sud\u00adden dynam\u00adic shifts and odd silences, is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly splen\u00addid, and com\u00adple\u00adments the open\u00ading <em>alle\u00adgro<\/em>\u2019s arrest\u00ading begin\u00adning in a most sat\u00adis\u00adfy\u00ading&nbsp;way.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first began lis\u00adten\u00ading to Mozart, the \u201cHaffn\u00ader\u201d Sym\u00adpho\u00adny #35 (K.385) did not make as strong an impres\u00adsion on me as #36, #38, or #40 did.&nbsp;Now that I lis\u00adten close\u00adly to a per\u00adfor\u00admance by Neville Mar\u00adriner, I see&nbsp;that&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4192\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-co-listening-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}