Does Mozart use counterpoint?

1770–1820), especially in the music of the Viennese school of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, there was an ever-increasing penetration of counterpoint into musical forms based on this homophonic style and its contrasts of tonality, or key.

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The Classical period

The turn from the Baroque to the Classical period in music was marked by the change from a luxuriant polyphonic to a relatively simple homophonic texture—i.e., a texture of a single melodic line plus chordal accompaniment. Composers of the early Classical period (c. 1730–70) largely eschewed counterpoint altogether, drawing on it only when preparing church music in the “learned style,” as the Renaissance style was then called. Many of the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, despite a basically homophonic approach, reveal a skillful interplay between the main melody and accompaniment. In the late Classical period (c. 1770–1820), especially in the music of the Viennese school of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, there was an ever-increasing penetration of counterpoint into musical forms based on this homophonic style and its contrasts of tonality, or key. This counterpoint in turn was tempered by the Classical style and musical forms. For example, although combined melodic lines are heard as counterpoint, together they can also be heard as a series of harmonies. In this way they form unified phrases in the homophonic style. This satisfied demands for symmetrical phrase lengths and clear-cut cadences, or stopping points, necessary to mark the sections of Classical forms such as the sonata. Haydn underwent his contrapuntal “crisis,” or movement toward counterpoint, during the 1770s, the period of Sturm und Drang (“Storm and Stress”) in German literature, which had a deepening effect on other arts as well. Three of his Sun Quartets (1772) had fugues as final movements, and in the Russian Quartets (1781) Haydn proclaimed “an entirely new manner,” in which the thematic material was to be more equally shared by all of the stringed instruments instead of being given to a single principal melody instrument. Haydn heard Handel’s oratorios in London, which inspired him to write his own richly contrapuntal late oratorios, The Creation and The Seasons. Mozart’s discovery of the contrapuntal art of Bach and Handel impressed him so deeply that almost all of his later works were affected. The ensembles of the operas—e.g., Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte—with their clear delineation of several characters through their vocal lines, only became possible because of his new feeling for counterpoint. And at one point in his Jupiter Symphony five different themes are stated simultaneously, singly, or in combination. Nevertheless the counterpoint is kept entirely subservient to the harmonies of the symphony’s tonal design, or its use of keys. Each voice is also governed by an underlying phrase structure applied to all of them, so that the combined parts form unified musical phrases. Beethoven began his career in Vienna under the tutelage of the noted contrapuntal theorist Johann Albrechtsberger, and this, coupled with his admiration for Handel, probably accounts for his lifetime interest in counterpoint. He drew upon counterpoint to create musical intensity, especially in the development section of sonata form (the form prominent in Classical symphonies and chamber music), as in the first movement of the Razumovsky Quartet, Opus 59, No. 1, for example. In his late sonatas and quartets, except for obvious fugal works such as the first movement of Opus 131, or the Great Fugue, Opus 133, almost every movement shows the interpenetration of the principles of counterpoint, which deals with melodic lines, and tonality, which deals with harmonies.

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