Pro Musica’s Genius Of Mozart

Jonathan Willcocks brings his professional chamber orchestra Southern Pro Musica to Chichester for a special concert entitled The Genius of Mozart.

As Jonathan says, it “features a programme that travels from a workbyhismoderately-talented but hugely ambitious and pushy father Leopold Mozart, through an early symphony that Mozart wrote when a child prodigy to two of his finest late works – the Clarinet Concerto and his final Symphony No 41 (Jupiter).”

The concert is in St Paul's Church, Chichester on Saturday, May 11, with tickets on www.southernpromusica.org

“The theme of the concert is where did Mozart come from so wegetthisworkbyhisfatherand then an early work which then flows into these two absolute masterpieces. Mozart's fluency and instinct as a composer were extraordinary. His talent just flowed out of him and that was apparent from a very early age as a composer. By the age of ten he had a really quite sophisticated portfolio of works. It really was remarkable.

“The whole essence of the concert is to take the life and development of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart starting with a short symphony by his father who was the epitome of the moderately talented composer. His music would not be known at all if he had not had Wolfgang Amadeus as his son but really the idea is to show the starting point. And then we see the early symphony which Mozart wrote when he was about seven. It's an extraordinary piece but you can still see in it the influences of the music thathewasgrowingupwith.and then we move on to the two masterpieces.

“We have a brilliant young clarinettist as our soloist in the concerto Jonathan Leibovitz.”