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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is considered one of the three giants of musical composition along with Bach and Beethoven . Child prodigy born in Salzburg , at the age of six he mastered the keyboard and the violin and began to compose. His father, Leopold exhibits him in exhausting tours of different European courts. A prolific composer (more than 600 works written from the age of five until his death), he cultivated all kinds of musical genres: piano works, chamber music, symphonies, concertante works, choral works, operas... each and every one of them, masterpieces of its gender. His operas The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Cosí fan Tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro are among the 10 most performed operas in the world. He died in Vienna at the age of 35.

The Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, k. 331 consists of three movements: I Andante with variations; II Minuet; III Rondo alla turca (popularly known as the “Turkish March of Mozart”). Today we will view the First Movement , which deals with a theme with variations (as it was frequently used in the French school at the time); its variations belong to the purest and most flexible type of the Mozartian style. Today's performance is given by the Chinese pianist Chingya Mahlen .

Federico Chueca (1846-1908) was born in Madrid , in the Plaza de la Villa into a wealthy family; He received solfeggio classes from elementary school, which he attended at a select school, but his family forced him to abandon music to study medicine. Barbieri helped him orchestrate and conduct the works, and their great success convinced Chueca to leave medicine and dedicate himself to music. He is considered a self-taught musician with an innate talent and a knack for melody and rhythm, which led him to compose extraordinary pieces of music. He worked with several collaborators, but above all with Joaquín Valverde , in many of his works. He is currently considered one of the greatest representatives of the small genre (zarzuelas in one act).

La Gran Vía is a zarzuela in one act and five scenes with music by the maestros Federico Chueca and Joaquín Valverde and a libretto by Felipe Pérez y González premiered at the Felipe Theater in Madrid on July 2, 1886. It achieved such fame that they had to change some paintings, since being a current affairs magazine, it had to be modernized. This is how new paintings appeared, such as En la calle de Alcalá , or El bazaar de toyes . He is an exponent of the small genre taken to the field of the current affairs magazine, where the social and political concerns of the moment were exposed with good humor and a satirical sense. The script portrays with skill and satire, the news of the moment, showing on stage a great parade of types and comic situations of great effect.

Teresa Berganza Vargas (1933-2022) was a Spanish zarzuela and opera singer, frequently associated with characters from operas by Rossini, Mozart and Bizet , admired for her technique, musicality and stage presence. She studied piano and singing at the Madrid Conservatory , where she won first prize for singing in 1954. She made her debut in that city in 1955. Two years later she made her international debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival . During the ten years Following she made her debut at La Scala , Glyndebourne festival, Royal Opera House , Metropolitan Opera House ... Her concert repertoire included Spanish, French, German and Russian songs. In 1994 she was elected a member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts , the first woman to obtain this distinction.

Mozart and Freemasonry . Freemasonry appeared in Europe at the end of the 17th century as a selective group of a philanthropic nature, with a federal structure and with humanistic objectives, such as the search for truth, the study of human behavior, science and the arts and the social and moral development of people and society; all this based on a feeling of brotherhood, whose teachings are symbolized with elements of masonry. At the age of 28, Mozart entered the Vienna Masonic Lodge as an apprentice ; the following month he was promoted to the rank of Companion and after four months he was appointed Master Mason . Influenced by the Enlightenment , he pursued rationalism, although without joining the occult character of many of his companions.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 was composed in Vienna in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler , a great friend and fellow Freemason of Mozart 's. Unlike all other Mozart concertos , this one does not provide a cadenza for the soloist in its first movement , but in the second (15'44''-- 16'07''). On the other hand, it is composed, like all concertos for soloists of the time, of three movements . I (0´19´´) Allegro - Being the first movement it is in the key of the work: A major . II (12´20´´) Adagio - As established by the norm, this movement is in the subdominant tonality in relation to the main tonality of the work; i.e. D major . III (18´45´´) Rondó - In the same key as the first movement, A major.

Sabine Meyer (1959), today's soloist, is a German classical music clarinetist, who began playing the clarinet at a very young age. His first teacher was his father, also a clarinetist. She studied with Otto Hermann in Stuttgart , and then with Hans Deinzer at the Hannover Higher School of Music and Theater , together with her brother Wolfgang Meyer , and later husband, clarinetist Reiner Wehle , who later worked at the Munich Philharmonic. . She began her career as a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra , where she was one of the first female members. In addition to her solo work, Sabine Meyer is a committed chamber music performer.

Max Reger (1873-1916), was a German composer, organist, pianist, and teacher born in Brand , Bavaria. He studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden under Hugo Riemann . During a creative life of just over 20 years, Reger produced a large number of works for organ and other genres (with the exception of opera). He was a strong champion of absolute music, and saw himself as part of the musical tradition of Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms . His work often combines the classical structures of these composers with the extended harmonies of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner and the complex counterpoint of Johann Sebastian Bach . Of his orchestral works, the Hiller Variations and the Mozart Variations , which we offer today , are the most remembered.

The Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart , Op. 132, is a set of variations for orchestra composed in 1914 by Max Reger ; the composer conducted the premiere in Berlin on February 5, 1915. The composition is structured in the following movements: I (0´04´´) THEME: ANDANTE GRAZIOSO .-. II (2´44´´) VARIATION 1ª: L'ISTESSO TEMPO, QUASI UN LITTLE PIÙ LENTO .-. III (5´17´´) 2nd VARIATION: LITTLE AGITATO .-. IV (7´34´´) 3rd VARIATION: WITH MOTORCYCLE .-. V (9´09´´) VARIATION 4ª: VIVACE .-. VI (10´00´´) VARIATION 5ª: QUASI PRESTO .-. VII (11´49´´) VARIATION 6ª: SOSTENUTO (QUASI ADAGIETTO) .-. VIII (13´59´´) VARIATION 7ª: ANDANTE GRAZIOSO .-. IX (16´51´´) VARIATION 8ª: MOLTO SOSTENUTO .-. X (23´52´´) FUGA: ALLEGRETTO GRAZIOSO.

The version that we offer today is conducted by Péter Eötvös (1944), a Hungarian composer and conductor, who has held at different times the ownership of the direction of the Stockhausen Ensemble , the Ensemble InterContemporain of Paris , the Radio Chamber Orchestra of Hilversum , as well as he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra , of the Budapest Festival Orchestra , of the National Philharmonic, also of Budapest, of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, of the Symphony Orchestra of Vienna ... and has conducted other important orchestras on different occasions such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra or the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra .

Mambo is a musical rhythm and dance native to Cuba . The word “ mambo ” is an Afronegrism, similarly to other African-American musical terms such as conga, milonga, bomba, tumba, samba, bamba, bambulá, tambo, tango, cumbé, cumbia, and candombe , which denote an African origin, and particularly congolese The original roots of the Mambo , which can be found in the “ Danzón de Nuevo Ritmo ”, was popularized by the Arcaño y sus Maravillas orchestra by accelerating the danzón and introducing a syncopation on the percussion. It was Arcaño's cellist, Orestes López , who created the first Danzón called Mambo in 1938.

Sarah Willis (1969) is an American horn player who grew up in Maryland, Tokyo, Boston, Moscow, and London . He began playing the French horn at the age of 14; at 22, he entered the Berlin State Opera and at 32, at the Berlin Philharmonic where he continues to this day. In 2017, she traveled to Cuba for the first time to give a master class on horn, at which point she fell in love with the overflowing musicality of its inhabitants and the high technical preparation of its musicians; He returns three more times to give as many master classes; Mozart and Mambo emerges from this coexistence with Cuban musicians, which is a musical selection that combines concerts for Mozart 's horn with traditional Cuban music. The album was published in 2020 and the Little Night Serenade also appears on it in a mambo version.

And from the record, to the performance: Rondó alla Mambo! Inspired by the third movement of the third horn concerto K. 447 is a flashmob (unusual performance by a group of people who appear and disappear suddenly) written by Joshua Davis and Yuniet Lombida Prieto that makes its appearance on the streets of Havana; the flashmob is interpreted by Sarah Willis and members of the Lyceum Orchestra of Havana as a climax to the experience of " Mozart and Mambo ".

Camarón de la Isla (1950-1992) was born on Carmen street, located in the neighborhood popularly known as "Las Callejuelas" in the Cadiz town of San Fernando . Considered one of the best singers of all time, it is his personal heritage to have revolutionized an art that was dying, starting from the most intimate character of flamenco, despite the criticism received. On his records he brought flamenco closer to profane ears as well as working on musical mixes, while in his more intimate recitals he showed a more sober and intimate character. In 2000, he was posthumously awarded the Llave de Oro del Cante .

Il Giardino degli Amanti . It is a suite created by the Roman choreographer Massimiliano Volpini with fractions of Mozart 's compositions in which different characters from his works appear, dancing to the mysterious and intimate music to which they are invited.

Roberto Bolle (1975) is an Italian classical ballet dancer who has performed with the most renowned ballet companies in the world. In 2003 she received the title of étoile from La Scala Theater and in 2009 principal dancer from the American Ballet Theatre . Likewise, Nicoletta Manni (1991) is the prima ballerina of the Teatro La Scala Ballet.

The International Cervantino Festival (FIC), popularly known as "El Cervantino", has been held since 1972 in the city of Guanajuato , in the Mexican Bajío region. The festival was born in the mid- 20th century when the hors d'oeuvres by Miguel de Cervantes were still performed in the squares of various Guanajuato cities, staged by maestro Enrique Ruelas Espinosa . In the 1970s more artistic activities were added to the traditional performances to reinforce the international dimension of the festival. Since then it has grown to become one of the four largest festivals of its kind in the world.

The National Folklore Cast of Peru offers us today some of the most representative pieces of Peruvian music and dance within this international folklore show held in Mexico .