Symphoniker Hamburg / Han-Na Chang

Date & Time

Sun, Apr 27, 2025, 19:00

Venue

Mozart's "little" G minor symphony, written at age 17, gained fame through Miloš Forman's 1984 film "Amadeus." Mozart valued it enough to request the score ten years later. Completed on October 5, 1773, after his third Italian trip, it's his first minor key symphony, inspired by Haydn's 39th symphony. Mahler's Fifth Symphony quotes Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio." Mahler struggled with the Fifth, revising it multiple times. The famous Adagietto, a love letter to his wife Alma, shouldn't be played too slowly.
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Symphoniker Hamburg
Han-Na Chang	Conductor

Program

Symphony in G Minor, KV 183	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor	Gustav Mahler

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