Franz Xaver Mozart was W. A. Mozart's youngest son. Volume 1 contains nine variation cycles · Fantasia in A Major · Sonata, Op. 10 · and a cycle of variations for three hands.

Already the first volume (HL51480958) of original piano works by Mozart's youngest son made the music world take notice. The second volume now completes the collection of works by this composer who is often underestimated.

Mozart's concert arias were written for various reasons: some for recital purposes, others as substitutions for arias in his own or other operas; all, however, display the remarkable beauty, depth of feeling, and limitless musical invention that mark his finest vocal writing. Included in this very affordable new volume for soprano are 12 of the best: Ah, lo previdi! K.272; Voi avete un cor fedele, K.217; Chi sa qual sia, K.582; and nine more. Dover Original. Selected from the edition published by Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig, [n.d.].

F. X. Mozart's works have an individual sound that forges a link with Romanticism. Flautists value his melodious Rondo in E minor, a suitable work for teaching and recital performance.

I've had to turn out a serenade on short order: these lines from Mozart to his father offer a glimpse into the everyday life of a composer dependent on patronage. Mozart was about to be married when he pulled this wind piece out of his hat. Yet the results are far removed from the detached, courtly style of the serenade: the work, one of the jewels of the wind repertoire, opens full of earnestness and profundity in the gloomy key of C minor. The high opinion Mozart had of this octet is evident in the fact that he later arranged it for string quintet.