Accra City Singers, a Ghanaian-based choral group, and Tumi Musik are set to grace the Accra Wesley Methodist Cathedral with an exciting event dubbed Echoes of Eternity: Mozart.
Saturday, October 17, promises to be a night of splendor of Mozart’s timeless music. The much-anticipated event commences at 6:30pm. The Hungarian conductor, Anikó Fehér, and her singers have been putting in so much effort to ensure the success of the event.
The Accra City Singers and Tumi Musik will be accompanied by the Accra International Strings and Winds. Members of the general public are cordially invited to the event. Individuals inspired to offer donations after the concert are welcomed to do so.
Sponsors are the Embassy of Hungry and Mawu Kos.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg on January 27, 1756. At the age of 12, Mozart made a name for himself as a composer of opera. His La finta semplice (1768) was followed by three commissions involving long periods spent in Milan: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (1770), Ascanio in Alba (1771) and Lucio Silla (1772).
He composed a set of piano sonatas (K. 279–284) and the Piano Concertos Nos. 5–10. He wrote five violin concertos for himself between 1773 and 1775. According to the Chamber Music Society, From 1781 to 1787 he composed many piano works and no fewer than 15 piano concertos, whose innovative scoring (starting in 1784 with K. 450) essentially created a new orchestral style with more active winds.
He also wrote chamber works for strings and winds, with and without piano, and refined his compositional experience, especially through a set of string quartets which he later dedicated to Haydn. Three German and Italian operas added to his fame: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782), Le nozze di Figaro (1786), and Don Giovanni (1787)—the latter two on librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte.
His career was cut short when he suddenly died on December 5, 1791, at the age of 35.