Mozart und seine Zeitgenossen

Typical chamber music of a time in which making music at home was part of the good tone (in the double sense of the word) among educated people. The demand for chamber music that was occasionally virtuosic, but accessible above all to laypersons, was enormous and ensured a relatively secure income for the large music publishers, but also for the composers. Many of these works for a melodic instrument and piano or harpsichord are constructed upside down by our standards today: The carrier of musical events is not the melodic instrument, which is accompanied and supported by the piano, but conversely the piano, which is tonally enriched by the violin, flute or oboe by doubling the upper voice.