FASCHINGS-LUSTBARKEITEN
Oberton String Octet

Mozart
Overture from Le nozze di Figaro K. 492 

Astor Piazzolla
Tangos

Mozart
Dances for the Viennese Redoutensaal 

Mozart
A musical joke for two violins, viola, bass and two horns K. 522

Those who strictly observed Lent, as the Mozarts did, had every right to enjoy themselves at carnival beforehand. Not only Wolfgang Amadé and his wife Constanze, but also his sister and even his father and mother danced the night away. At the beginning of the new carnival and ball season, musical samples from old and new times as well as excerpts from their letters provide us with lively information about this. These illuminate the different carnival customs of the time in Salzburg and Vienna, but also in Paris and Venice.