Greater Fort Myers Chamber Of Commerce: Haydn, Mozart & Schumann With The Gulf Coast Chamber Orchestra

Press release from Greater Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce:

2021-10-21

October 23
Music and Arts Community Center – The MACC
13411 Shire Lane, Fort Myers, Fl 33912

HAYDN, MOZART & SCHUMANN

Mozart Symphony No. 40 in g minor
Hadyn Symphony No. 96 in D Major “Miracle”
Schumann Symphony No. 4 in d minor, Op. 120

Maestro Andrew M. Kurtz leads the Gulf Coast Chamber Orchestra in a program of classical favorites.

Schumann’s fourth symphony is a romantic masterpiece, a dazzling piece that illustrates the Romantic triumph of the creative soul over adversity. This magnificent work was written as Schumann was struggling against syphilitic insanity – a devastating symptom of the disease that would claim his life in a decade.

Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, one of only two symphonies Mozart wrote in a minor key, is a dramatic masterpiece. Written in G minor, a key the Mozart used for tragedy and angst; forecast things yet to come: the first in the future work of a young composer, the second as harbinger of future musical compositions derived from emerging Romanticism. Richard Wagner called K. 550 “pivotal to the romantic world.”

This press release was produced by Greater Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce. The views expressed here are the author’s own.