Thu 2/27 @ 7:30PM
Fri 2/28 @ 7:30PM
Sat 3/1 @ 7:30PM
Sun 3/2 @ 3PM
Mozart is widely considered the Greatest Composer Who Ever Lived, the wellspring for countless other musicians. But who influenced Mozart? He didn’t spring full-blown from nowhere, no matter what his greatest advocates might say.
In the next concert by Cleveland’s baroque chamber orchestra Apollo’s Fire, titled “Classic Sparks,” you can hear music that influenced him — his teacher Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and his contemporary, French violinist/composer/conductor Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St-Georges (1775-1799).
The orchestra will play Haydn’s Symphony No. 8 (“Le Soir”) and arias by Bologne, sung by tenor Jonathan Pierce Rhodes, as well as Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, featuring Apollo’s Fire’s assistant artistic director and concertmaster Alan Choo. Composer Eric Gould will give a pre-concert talk an hour before each performance.
They’ll perform at Akron’s First Methodist Church on Thursday; St. Raphael Church in Bay Village on Friday; First Baptist Church in Shaker Heights on Saturday; and the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium on Sunday.
Get tickets here.