Mozart, The Music, The Myth, The Legend, w/ Jan Swafford
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
"I think Mozart just really loved people." - Jan Swafford.
For the Season 8 Finale, I had the great pleasure of welcoming back Jan Swafford, the great writer on music, who has written a spectacular new biography of Mozart. In this conversation, we talked about who Mozart really was as a person, some of the myths that defined him during his lifetime and into the present day, and of course, the incomparable music that Mozart was able to create, sometimes on a whim or in a single afternoon. This is a conversation about a man who understood people perhaps better than almost any composer, and a musician who scraped and struggled during his life while achieving immortality through his creations. Please note that this will be the last episode of Season 8 and Season 9 will begin on September 8!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sticky Nuts, the Classical Music Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | My name is Joshua Will Weatherstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the Music Director of the |
| 0:11.5 | Phoenix Orchestra of Boston. |
| 0:13.5 | This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just getting |
| 0:17.9 | ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music. |
| 0:21.1 | Before we get started, I want to thank my new Patreon sponsors, Ari, Sam, Will, Renee, |
| 0:26.5 | Julie, and all of my other Patreon sponsors for making Season 8 possible. |
| 0:31.5 | If you'd like to support the show, please head over to patreon.com slash Sticky Nuts Podcast. |
| 0:36.6 | And if you are a fan of the show, please take a moment to give us a rating or review on |
| 0:39.7 | Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:41.5 | Every reading your review helps more people find the show, and it is greatly appreciated. |
| 0:47.4 | So as I said a couple of weeks ago, this will be the final episode of Season 8, and for |
| 0:52.6 | the first time in five years, I'm going to be taking some time off from the podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | It will be for the next four weeks after this one, there will not be any new episodes |
| 1:02.8 | of the show. |
| 1:04.2 | But I do want to mention that there are quite a few episodes, 162 of them, I believe, in |
| 1:09.7 | the archives. |
| 1:10.7 | And I get some questions from people asking me to do pieces like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, |
| 1:15.5 | and I remind them that it's actually in the archive. |
| 1:18.1 | So if you go back in your podcast feeds, you can find repertoire from the medieval era, |
| 1:23.8 | all the way to the contemporary interviews, and a lot of these, quote unquote, standard |
| 1:28.2 | repertoire pieces that you might be looking for are in those archives. |
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