Divertimento in D Major, K. 205

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Mozart composed this work for two horns, bassoon and strings in Salzburg in 1773. He was 17.1
  • It is likely that Mozart wrote this divertimento for the name day of Maria Anna Elisabeth von Andretter (sometimes spelled Antretter), the wife of a local Salzburg politician Johann Ernst von Andretter.2
  • The Andretter family knew the Mozart family well. One of their sons served with Mozart in the same military rifle regiment, and one of their daughters took music lessons with Nannerl Mozart. The family also commissioned the Andretter-Serenade K185.3

Sources

  1. Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233. 
  2. Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1995), 102.
  3. “Palais Rehlingen or Antretterhaus, Mozartplatz,” Visit-Salzburg.net, accessed November 27, 2019, http://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/palais-rehlingen.htm. 

Cut IDs

43882