(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Doha: Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra pays homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Franz Schubert-child prodigies who composed some of the most beautiful music at a young age but died too early.
Under the baton of German conductor David Niemann (pictured), Qatar Philharmonic's concert tonight at Qatar National Convention Centre will open with the mysterious Unfinished Symphony by Schubert, followed by Mozart´s Bassoon Concerto featuring Daniel Hrinda, the solo bassoonist of the orchestra, culminating with A Midsummer-Night´s Dream by Mendelssohn.
Schubert's half-finished masterwork, Unfinished Symphony, which is considered one of music's most intriguing enigmas, became one of his most famous works.
Son of a schoolmaster in Vienna and grew up in a family that loved chamber music, Schubert was prodigiously talented from a very young age that during his creative career, which lasted only 15 years or so, he completed a new piece every few days with days on which he would write up to eight songs.
Another child prodigy, Mozart wrote the Bassoon Concerto, his first concerto for a wind instrument, in Salzburg when he was 18 years old. It is believed that he might have written as many as five bassoon concertos but only this one had survived.
Born in Salzburg, Austria, Mozart was a very young musical prodigy who began composing music at age 11. Though his illustrious career was cut short by his sudden death at age 35, he left an oeuvre of some 600 compositions which included operas, sonatas, chamber music, symphonies and pianistic and religious pieces enjoyed around the world till now.
Named by composer and influential music critic Robert Schumann 'the Mozart of the 19th century, Mendelssohn was born into a wealthy family of art connoisseurs and had ideal conditions to pursue and develop his talent. It was his interest in literature which inspired him to write the Midsummer-Night´s Dream Overture when he was only 17 years old in 1826 inspired by William Shakespeare's fairy-tale, comical and romantic play.
The orchestra will be led by young conductor David Niemann. Second prize winner of the 2015 Malko Conducting Competition, Niemann, who was initially a passionate violinist, is considered one of the most promising conductors of his generation. Qatar Philharmonic's next concert will be on October 4 at Katara Opera House featuring Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No.7 and music from ballets Spartacus and Gayane by Aram Khachaturian with Dmitrij Kitajenko as conductor.
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