2019 Incredible Decades Disc 2
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Mozart’s death in 1791 marked an abrupt end to one of history’s most incandescent artistic careers.
The following year, the twenty-two-year-old Beethoven traveled to Vienna, where, under Haydn’s
tutelage, he inherited—and then transformed—the Classical tradition. The second volume of
Music@Menlo LIVE 2019 offers a snapshot of the eighteenth century’s final decade, when Haydn,
the elder statesman of the Classical era, gave way to the voice of a new century.