Anam- The Up-bow Down-low

Episode 3, 2020: Mozart’s Oboe Quartet Wednesday 10 June 2020 While in the middle of completing the finishing touches for his first major opera, Idomeneo, for the Munich Court in 1781, Mozart found the time to write a chamber work for the Court Orchestra’s principal oboist, Friedrich Ramm. That work is the Quartet in F major for oboe and three strings (violin, viola and cello). In this composition, Mozart elevated the oboe as he took advantage of the recent improvements in the instrument’s mechanism at the time. It is easy to assume that the oboist would be the one to lead the performance but ANAM alumnus Edward Wang (oboe 2019), who performed this piece with fellow ANAM musicians last year, approached the composition as a quartet rather than an oboe concerto. Hear the lively chat between Edward and ANAM Music Librarian Phil Lambert as they share fascinating details about this Mozart composition and how listening to it compares to going through different moods in a single day. Edward was awarded the ANAM