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Don Giovanni Overture, K. 527

17876 min

This guide follows Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture, K. 527 (1787) in one part (sonata form).

Recording: Česká filharmonie, Manfred Honeck (2006)

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– Sonata form0:43–6:28

The slow opens with menacing D minor chords from the full orchestra, quiet echoes in the winds, pulsing strings like a nervous heartbeat, and eerie scales in flutes and violins. Then the bursts in, in D major, with a syncopated, defiant in the violins. The follows. Then come the and the .

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