When the composer moved to Vienna at the age of 25, he passed the violin on to his sister Nannerl, who gifted it to a star music pupil of hers, who died. "And he kept this position for several years, and that's when he wrote his violin concertos." "This was his first job, actually, his first position anywhere, and that's when he started playing on this violin," he said. The young child prodigy would have played it when he was named concert master of the Salzburg Hofkapelle at the age of 13, Koncz said. The violin itself - likely Mozart's first - was built in 18th-century Mittenwald, Bavaria, a town famous for its violin making. F is for Fanny: German composer's masterpiece sonata was written by his sister.That time a baby sang Mozart on As It Happens.Koncz's new album, the first ever complete recording of Mozart's violin concertos on the composer's original violin, is now available on CD or for digital download. "I think the audience also understood this feeling at this point, and it was great for everybody to be coming together also in these extraordinary circumstances and to just celebrate the music of this genius."
So for me to perform Mozart's violin concertos for an audience, a live audience in Salzburg, was a very special experience," Koncz told As It Happens host Carol Off. "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played his violin concertos on this very instrument.
He also recorded Mozart's violin concertos on it, and performed them for a live audience on Friday in Salzburg, Austria. Koncz, the principal second violinist of the Vienna Philharmonic, not only got to play the precious baroque instrument. Playing Mozart's music on Mozart's own violin is like reaching through 250 years of history to commune with the legendary composer, says Christoph Koncz.
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