The Libraries play host on Tuesday, November 30 once again to the University's own Ciompi Quartet, in a lunchtime concert in the Perkins Rare Book Room. The concert is part of a Duke Performances series, and the Ciompi is focusing this year on the canonical works of Mozart. The Rare Book Room is a wonderful space for chamber music, and this week's performance will feature one of Mozart's String Quartet in A Major, K. 464, one of the "Haydn Quartets," so known because the composer dedicated them in admiration to Josef Haydn, his contemporary.
These informal lunchtime concerts are free and open to the public. Quartet members give informative and lively comments about the piece to complement the performance, and questions from audience members are welcome. Bring your lunch and enjoy a respite from the end-of-semester rush!
The Libraries can offer just a bit of reading and listening to whet your appetite in the meantime....
The Oxford Music Online database includes the monumental Grove Encyclopedia of Music, and more. A great source for background information.
Books and other resources about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sound recordings in the Music Media Center, Biddle Building, East Campus
Among the resources the Libraries is considering adding to our collections is the database
Classical Scores Library Online.
(See for example Achtzehntes Quartett (18th Quartet) in A Major, K. 464; by Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus (composer); Breitkopf and Härtel (publisher); published 1907; University Music Editions (collection); 18pp)
Give it a try and add your comments about this or other trial databases in music and other fields.
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