// Mozart /Tacoma •  2020 /Salish Sea/ Early Music Festival ///**///////*MOZART QUARTETS*////////// ////// // ////• /Thursday, January 30 at 7:00 PM •/////   3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma/// // /Early Music America/ Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 7:00 PM • MOZART QUARTETS FOR FLUTE AND STRINGS • Jeffrey Cohan ~ one-keyed flute Carrie Krause ~ violin Victoria Gunn ~ viola Caroline Nicolas ~ cello Please join us on Thursday for a rare opportunity to hear the complete Mozart quartets for flute and strings performed on period instruments. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote four flute quartets between 1777 and 1786 or possibly later. They borrow material from French folk song, an opera by Giovanni Paisiello which Mozart had heard in Prague, and works of Mozart’s own and of his friend Franz Anton Hoffmeister, and are by far the most well known of all works for this combination of instruments. Mozart's unfortunate professed distaste for the flute was possibly a reflection of the his feelings for De Jean, the rich amateur flutist and surgeon with the Dutch East India Company who commissioned much of his flute music, to who Mozart had been introduced by his friend the Mannheim virtuoso flutist Johann Baptist Wendling. Distracted by his efforts to compose an opera, Mozart had difficulty devoting time to the commissioned works in a timely manner and there was some disgruntlement with regards to reimbursement in letters with his father. Nevertheless the quartets abound with transporting musical material the likes of which only Mozart could offer. Thursday January 30, 2020 at 7:00 PM St. Luke's Memorial Episcopal Church  •  (253) 759-3534 3615 North Gove Street in Tacoma   •  suggested donation $15, $20 or $25  •  18 and under free • /www.salishseafestival.org/tacoma/ EMA /The Salish Sea Early Music Festival is proud to be an affiliate organization of *Early Music America*, which develops, strengthens, and celebrates early music and historically informed performance in North America. /