Early music / Arte dei Suonatori / Karol Mossakowski (postponed) - NOSPR

We would like to inform you that due to reasons beyond the control of NOSPR, the concert has been postponed to 22 April 2023. Tickets remain valid.

Purchased tickets remain valid. For those who will not be able to attend the concert, it is possible to return the ticket to the vendor.

When Mozart was a child, the face of the world was transformed with the coming of the industrial revolution. Until then, besides clocks, the organ had been among the most complex machinery designed by humankind. The Fantasia in F minor, K. 608, a piece for organ playing thanks to clockwork mechanisms, came to be thanks to Mozart’s meeting the count Joseph Deym, a miscellanea collector. Today, we already know that no automatic work will ever replace a living artist, therefore, the Fantasia has entered organists’ repertoire. They are fond of adapting pieces written for other instruments, even symphonic works, to showcase the entirety of the possibilities offered by “the king of instruments”. Thus, the evening will feature the feather-light Piano Concerto in A major, K. 414 and, even lighter, the Symphony in B flat major, K. 319, as well as the cloudy Adagio and Fugue, K. 546, contrasting with the foregoing, originating from the time of Mozart’s fascination with Bach’s counterpoint.

[Adam Suprynowicz, translated by Mikołaj Witkowski]

Duration of the concert: approx. 80 minutes