Mozart the Mason (2006)

The concept of this disc makes less and less sense the more you think about it, but that doesn't stop it from being a very nicely played program of Mozart chamber music. Mozart was indeed a Freemason, and he wrote music, including The Magic Flute, that was directly related to Masonic ideas and rituals. Two works are included on this album; one, the Divertimento for string trio, K. 563, has a tenuous connection to Freemasonry in that Mozart wrote it for a friend, Michael Puchberg, who was a fellow Mason and often lent Mozart ... Read More

The concept of this disc makes less and less sense the more you think about it, but that doesn't stop it from being a very nicely played program of Mozart chamber music. Mozart was indeed a Freemason, and he wrote music, including The Magic Flute, that was directly related to Masonic ideas and rituals. Two works are included on this album; one, the Divertimento for string trio, K. 563, has a tenuous connection to Freemasonry in that Mozart wrote it for a friend, Michael Puchberg, who was a fellow Mason and often lent Mozart money. It supposedly contains patterns and proportions of threes and sixes that relate to Masonic symbolism, but groups of two and three in Mozartian structures are as common as dirt. The other work on the album is a set of preludes and fugues for string trio; the fugues are arranged from Bach's three-part fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, while the preludes are Mozart's own. What this work, which opens the album, has to do with Freemasonry is not clear; Bach was certainly no... Read Less

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