Anna Vilenskaya in Vienna 25 October 2024

Anna Vilenskaya is a musicologist, lecturer and researcher of contemporary music. She has changed the approach of storytelling about music towards visualization, simplicity, emotionality and practical benefits for the listener.

Lecture topic: Mozart and Beethoven

Mozart and Beethoven are usually covered one after another in music school.

Both are classical (well, or Beethoven a little less so), both wrote symphonies, used the orchestra, and created "great masterpieces." Apart from biographical facts and attitudes to wigs, their music differs, but in what way is a tricky question.

To answer it, you need to get deep into the musical fabric, to see how they both build the same chord, what instruments they prefer to give the melody to, how they joke and how they think. That's what we'll do in the lecture.

As a side effect, we will also understand how the music of classicism is organized, and how harmony and melody work. It is not necessary to know any music beforehand; the lecture is intended for people without musical training.