Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 and died in 1791 in Austria. From a young age his father paraded him to European nobility to show them the amazing genius that he was.
Today, we ask the legendary Hagen Quartett, also from Salzburg, to help us celebrate Mozart’s birth.
The 30-year career of the Hagen Quartet began in 1981. Its early years, marked by a series of prizes in chamber music competitions and an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon that was to produce around forty-five CDs over the following twenty years, enabled the group to work its way through the virtually un- limited quartet repertoire from which the distinctive profile of the Hagens has emerged.
Collaborations with artistic personalities such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and György Kurtág are as important to the Hagen Quartet as its concert appearances with performers including Maurizio Pollini, Mitsuko Uchida, Sabine Meyer, Krystian Zimerman, Heinrich Schiff and Jörg Widmann.
Here is the Hagen Quartet in the Quartet #14 by Mozart:
