Faculty & friends: Vienna after Mozart

Historical keyboard specialist Dr Erin Helyard showcases the music of Viennese composers active in the wake of Mozart’s death in the 1790s. Made immediately famous by his grieving - but financially canny - widow Costanza, the dead composer loomed large in Vienna’s musical landscape. Composers wrestled with Mozart’s influence as much as composers did with Beethoven in the nineteenth century. Dr Helyard performs music of Mozart’s students, admirers, and competitors from the late 1780s and 1790s on the University's superb copy of an Anton Walter fortepiano from c. 1796 built by Paul McNulty. Josepha Barbara von Auernhammer (1758-1820) Six Variations on “Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja” (1792) Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792) Sonata in E major [VB196] (1788) Vivace Adagio Andante con varazioni August Eberharde Müller (1767-1817) Sonata in A major Op. 7 No 1 (c. 1792) Allegro assai Andante con variazioni