Die Zauberklarinette (Mozart's Magic Clarinet) Noosa Chamber Music

Five friends gather to warm your hearts with a performance of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet and other works. A Noosa Chamber Music concert. Mozart's Heartwarming Quintet ​ Just like Noosa Chamber Music, the Tonkünstler-Societät of Vienna (a charity for the widows and orphans of deceased musicians) gathered a few times each year as friends, to warm hearts with music. One could hardly exclude Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from a Viennese gathering in 1789, so they asked him to contribute a work which was given its premiere by Anton Stadler. ​ Mozart was an admirer of Stadler, once saying of his playing: "I have never heard the like of what you contrived with your instrument... your instrument has so soft and lovely a tone that no one can resist it." If not for this musical friendship, the clarinet may be as obscure to us today as the ophicleide or cimbasso are. ​ With four friends at my side, I will perform this work for the first time in my career, in a program also featuring a whimsical argument by Beethoven's pal, Anton Reicha, a stormy voyage giving way to serenity to mark the end of a Great War by English composer Herbert Howells, and a small Spanish gift from my friend, Joseph Myers. ​​ As Winter recedes and the afternoons grow longer, spend an afternoon with Vera Marcu, Anna Moores, Dan Williams, Jane Tallon and Artistic Director Sacha Gibbs-McPhee at 4pm on the 19th of September 2026, at Noosaville's Good Shepherd Church Hall.