In Vienna, everything collapses around Mozart: his works earns him only some florins pre-mortgaged by those he calls his friends.
Sick and tired, he nevertheless creates music that stands out by the quiet intensity of the emotions such music conveys.
“If people could see in my heart, I would almost redden. All is cold like ice... People pleasant manners towards me appear so empty!”
Mozart, September 23, 1790
In February 1790, whereas the revolution took place in France, Leopold II succeeded to his brother for the Austria throne. Under this renewal, Mozart – the author of the Noces de Figaro opera – was kept away and saw his incomes reduced to a few florins, received here and there. In September, he paid the travel expenses to Frankfurt in order to attend the coronation to which, in spite of his Court position, he was not invited. This travel would have been without purpose if he had not stopped to Mannheim where the première of his Noces de Figaro opera took place and where he counted several of his friends.
In October, because of inadequate financial resources, he had to refuse a composer position offered by the London Italian Opera's director.
“All would be in assistance to me at this time...”
Mozart
In Cosi fan Tutte opera, two couples believe having sealed the true meaning of love and, up to the end of times, swear fidelity and loyalty to each other. But a subterfuge of their own will reveal that things are not that simple.
The opera introduces a tragi-comedy into which feelings evolve from an ingenuous assignment, to uncertainty, and then, to acceptance.
“In what a cruel contrast, in what a disorder of thoughts and feelings I find myself! So strange and new is my case that neither the others ones, nor myself are enough to advise me...”
Ferrando recitative, Cosi fan Tutte
| K.312 | Allegro for piano in G Minor |
| K.588 | "Cosi Fan Tutte, Ossia: La Scuola degli Amanti "(They all make very in the same way, or the School of the lovers), opera-buffa |
| K.589 | String quartet No. 22 in B flat Major - Second of the three quartets intended for the King of Prussia |
| K.590 | String quartet No. 23 in F Major - Last of the three quartets intended for the King of Prussia |
| K.591 | Instrumentation of Handel's "Alexander's Feast" |
| K.592 | Instrumentation of Handel's "Ode to Saint Cecilia" |
| K.593 | String quintet No. 6 in D Major |
| K.594 | Fantasia No. 1 for mechanical organ in F Minor |
| K.625 | Duo: "Nun Liebes Weibchen", for soprano and bass, in F Major |
While Mozart's music aroused the most vivid admiration as well as envious glances, it also created quivers to others.
In the days where human liberties where challenged, Mozart got the ruling class to be worried. In such circumstances, how could he pursue his artistic endeavor without being muzzled?
“The Bastille would have to be destroyed so that the representation of this piece would not be a dangerous inconsequence.”
Louis XVI