Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass) (World Premiere Recording) Leonhard Baumgartner, Margarita Pochebut, Svenja Dose, Oscar Jockel

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass):
• 1 Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass): I. Marche (World Premiere Recording) 02:16
• 2 Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass): II. Allegro (World Premiere Recording) 02:24
• 3 Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass): III. Menuet [I] – Trio (World Premiere Recording) 02:13
• 4 Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass): IV. Polonoise "Boloneso" (World Premiere Recording) 01:12
• 5 Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass): V. Adagio (World Premiere Recording) 02:24
• 6 Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass): VI. Menuet [II] – Trio (World Premiere Recording) 01:53
• 7 Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass): VII. Finale. Allegro (World Premiere Recording) 00:51
• 8 Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass): VIII. Marche (Reprise) (World Premiere Recording) 02:18
• Total Runtime 15:31

Info for Mozart: Serenade in C Major, K. 648 "A Very Little Night Music" (Original Version for 2 Violins & Bass) (World Premiere Recording)

The Serenade in C KV 648 for two violins and bass, also known as ‘Ganz kleine Nachtmusik’, is a previously unknown piece by the composer. It was discovered by researchers from the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg in the Carl Ferdinand Becker Collection of the Music Library of the Leipzig Municipal Libraries while they were working on the new edition of the Köchel Catalogue, the reference work on Mozart's musical oeuvre. Mozart wrote the music, which consists of seven miniature movements for string trio, in his early youth, probably in the mid to late 1760s. On 19 September 2024, the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, which researches and preserves Mozart's cultural heritage under the direction of Dr Ulrich Leisinger, presented the piece to the public.

Leonhard Baumgartner, Margarita Pochebut (violins), Svenja Dose (double bass) and Oscar Jockel (harpsichord) gave this performance of the Serenade in C KV 648, probably the most authentic interpretation, in the Vienna Hall of the International Mozarteum Foundation. The two young, yet renowned violinists are still in their teens, just as Mozart was when he composed and performed the work for his sister. The ensemble opted for an interplay of double bass and harpsichord in the continuo section. This project was realised with the kind support of the Stretton Society.

Leonhard Baumgartner, violin
Margarita Pochebut, violin
Svenja Dose, double bass
Oscar Jockel, harpsichord

Leonhard Baumgartner
born 2007 in Vienna, Austria. Violin lessons from age 3 on , as well as choral tuition at the Nano Choir, which had an important impact on his musical development. He got solo vocal education, rhythm and ensemble training there alongside with numerous concerts.

In September 2019 Leo was accepted as pre college student for the highly gifted children into the violin studio of ao.Univ. Prof. Regina Brandstaetter at the University for Music and Performing Arts Graz.

Leonhard is a major prize winner at national and international competitions. In July 2021 Leonhard won 2nd Prize at the renowned International Competition Il Piccolo Violino Magico in Italy. From 2014 on, Leonhard has taken part in the biggest National Music Competition of Austria, Prima La Musica eight times. He competed in chamber music ensembles as well as in solo violin. Each time Leonhard took part, he won First Prize with distinction. 2018 he won First Prize at the federal competition of Austria (Bundeswettbewerb) Prima La Musica and got the Spezial Prize of the ESTA (European String Teachers Association) for his excellent solo playing. In August 2018 Leo won First Prize at the International Vivaldi Competition Vienna. In June 2020 Leo was selected as invited finalist at the Osaka International Music Competition semifinal in Vienna, Austria. Due to the travel restrictions during the Corona pandemic, Leo could not take part in the final in October. At the “Vienna New Year’s International Music Competition” without age groups he got the “Special Young Talent Award” in December 2020. In January 2021 Leo won First Prize at the VI Odin International Music Online Competition. In March 2021 Leo won First Prize at Danubia Talents “Vienna Classics” Competition (Hungary, online) as well as absolut First Prize with highest marks (100/100) at the Iscart International Music Competition (Switzerland, online).

In September 2020 he became scholar at an audition of the „PE- Förderungen“ Mannheim in Germany. He will now been supported during the next years to come. Other former scholars of the program were artists like Augustin Hadelich, Arabella Steinbacher and Daniel Müller- Schott.

Leonhard was the youngest accepted active participant at the renowned Kronberg Academy, Germany, 2019. There he was student in the class of Gerhard Schulz. In 2021, Leo was invited again and attended the class of Pavel Vernikov. At the concert of Kronberg Academy, Leo was awarded the Manfred Grommek Special Prize.

He also attended violin masterclasses with Pavel Vernikov, Ingolf Turban, Paul Roczek, Gerhard Schulz, Maxim Brilinsky Georg Hamann, and Alexandra Rappitsch. Currently Leo is scholar of „Internationale Musikakademie Liechtenstein“.

Margarita Pochebut
She is a talented eight-year-old violinist, a student of the prof. Bohdana Pivnenko, and a laureate of many international competitions in Ukraine and in Europe.

She began to play at the age of six and she brilliantly passed her entrance exams to the Mykola Lysenko Specialized Music Boarding School in Kyiv. And 6 months after she started her school, Margarita went on the big stage and played with the symphony orchestra for the first time. The same year for the first time in her life she participated in the Mischa Elman International Violin Competition. And she won her Grand Prix.

Margarita received ovations in the concert halls of Italy, Slovakia, Ukraine, Croatia, and the Czech Republic. As of today, she produced over 20 performances, accompanied by an orchestra, each time with a new complex program. The speed and the quality of Margarita's prep for concerts, festivals, competitions and master classes is really impressive.

She took master classes from the well-known contemporary violinists such as Igor Bendersky, Vadim Brodsky, Zakhar Bron, Alexander Brusilovsky, Boris Garlytsky, and Oleg Krysa. In 2019 she received a personal invitation from Maestro Shlomo Mintz to attend Summer Music Camp.

In a duet with her older sister Elizaveta, Margarita performs chamber music and a series of virtuoso concerto pieces.

Svenja Dose
Born near Hamburg in 1999, Svenja Dose began playing the double bass at the age of 13. She is currently studying at the Hanns-Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and has taken part in several masterclasses with renowned bassists. She is currently an academy student at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Oscar Jockel
is assistant conductor with the Berliner Philharmoniker for Kirill Petrenko and will be a conducting fellow of the Karajan Academy for two years receiving the “Siemens Conductors Scholarship” as a winner of the conducting competition at the Philharmonie Berlin in October 2021. In addition to assisting the chief conductor in concert and opera, the duties also include conducting his own concert projects together with the academy members of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Also in 2021, Oscar Jockel obtained a position as assistant conductor at the Philharmonie de Paris with the Ensemble intercontemporain and its director Matthias Pintscher.

Oscar Jockel received the Herbert von Karajan Award for his work to date as a composer and conductor, which was presented to him at the 2023 Salzburg Easter Festival. The previous prize winners were the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (2022), Hilary Hahn (2021), Janine Jansen (2020), Mariss Jansons (2019), Sol Gabetta (2018) and Daniil Trifonov (2017).

In the 2024/25 season, he follows invitations from the Semperoper Dresden with the Sächsische Staatskapelle, the Munich Philharmonic at the Isarphilharmonie, the Berlin Philharmonie with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Konzerthaus with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Halle Handel Festival with the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Ljubljana Radio Orchestra.

He also tours with the Camerata Salzburg and pianist Mao Fujita in Salzburg, Munich and Vienna and returns to the Gewandhaus with the Mendelssohn Orchestra Academy, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the Tonkünstler Orchestra Vienna.

In recent seasons, he has already made guest appearances at the Salzburg Easter Festival 2023 in a production at the Felsenreitschule and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, at the International Shostakovich Festival in Gohrisch with the Staatskapelle Dresden, at the International Bruckner Festival 2022 in Linz, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Ensemble intercontemporain in Paris.

As a conductor or conducting assistant, among others to Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Reinhard Goebel or Hartmut Haenchen, he has already worked with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Klangforum Wien, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen or the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra.

In the 2018 Järvi Conducting Academy in Estonia he was taught by Paavo Järvi as well as his father, Neeme Järvi, and in 2019 he received a Conducting Seminar Fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons and Stefan Asbury. After winning an Aspen Conducting Prize at the Aspen Music Festival in the summer of 2021 as a Conducting Fellow of the American Conducting Academy, he received a re-invitation for 2022.

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