If only Mozart (or Schubert, among others) would have had ten more years of life... their latest works were so outstanding...

Five separate themes?! For Mozart, master of the the opera, this is his forte. How blessed humanity has been!

"An inconceivably beautiful pool of music.". Well put.

Mozart composed this last symphony in 15 days, not the last movement, 15 days for the entire symphony. It's incredible he made this 5 themes fugue work in such a few time. An usual composer spent months to do something like that. And worst, this symphony was not performed more than 2 or 3 times.

A brilliant professor of my college years offered a survey course of classical music for those of us who knew nothing. To get a seat in the classroom, located in the basement of an ancient-seeming campus building, you had to arrive early. Kids who weren't even enrolled would crowd in. Mozart's 41st was the first piece we studied. We learned there was a musical architecture within the magic, and yet the magic ultimately defied explanation.

Mozart is an absolute master of the orchestral counterpoint.

This passage is stunningly complex, but sounds natural - easy and buoyant. Mozart's genius is unsurpassed.

Thank The Lord that we were lucky enough to haave Mozart on earth for 36 years!

Perfect example of why it's said that you can listen to great music over and over and notice new things each time. Your color coding of each theme is very helpful.

Didn’t even have to watch the video. Saw the score in the thumbnail and knew instantly what it was.

This is for me the finest music in the symphonic genre; it’s lively, magisterial, human and exhilarating. It never fails to overwhelm me. We are all lucky to have this music. Thank you for lifting the curtain on some of its glory

How could I have lived so long without hearing this? OMG!

Thank you! I was the one who asked you before to explain fugues more after your last video. You said you would and you did!! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been driving in my car with this symphony blasting!!! Love Mozart’ s Jupiter. I love Gustov Host Jupiter too but that’s for another day. Thank you!! Love the color coding and little comments.

Mozart can always give us a lesson in counterpoint.

All of Bach's output is the greatest 30 seconds of classical music., because after 30 seconds of pondering his work, one cannot think anymore and is left speechless.

I remember when I first heard this section of Mozart's 41st, and realized why viscerally that he is considered among the world's greatest composers ... halfway between the last great works of Bach and the last great works of Beethoven, there is that thirty seconds of perfection in the middle, looking both ways!

The second you said fugue I know it was the Mozart symphony 41 final movement, it is divinely brilliant. 5 part invertible counterpoint in fugue form using 4 musically beautiful subjects taken from the movement all leading to a triumphant coming together with the 5th and finale remaining motive of the piece. Well played Her Mozart, well played.

Excellent video - such a beautiful way of unpacking the subtle complexity. Bravo!

Mozart’s genius will continue to astound classical music lovers for ever. I love this symphony and have played maybe thousands of times. This part of the great 41 is definitely my favourite and I always ponder afterwards how does someone come up with these amazing pieces of music. But of course, Mozart is not just someone, he one of the greatest, or maybe the greatest composer of all time.

Thank you for making my appreciation of Mozart's language richer today. Wish your videos were around when I was at school. Color coding. combined with page of score and the orchestral sound. We live in blessed times indeed.

Excellent video. This is my favorite movement of my favorite piece of classical music and I am still probing its depths. One cannot imagine what another 35 years of this musical genius would have given the world!

mozart is a genius. no one can dispute.

Excellent analysis. I’ve always loved this last movement of the Jupiter but never truly understood all the things that were happening in it. Your unpacking it and revealing the five melodies has made my appreciation of it far deeper and richer. Thank you!

Love this video. One of my favourite 30 seconds of music as well. An absolute masterpiece this work is!

Oh my gosh.... I knew what exactly what this would be, just from the TITLE of the video! One of my favorites!

Just plain brilliant - if only my 'structure' lessons were this clear 50 years ago!

Wow! Thanks for explaining some of the intricacies of that piece! I've grown up with classical music and love it, but the way you pick it apart before putting it back together again just makes it a lot easier to understand why it is considered such a great body of art. Thanks for that!

I recall a similar episode of a radio program entitled "Music West" many years ago, perhaps 25. At the time i was not the biggest Mozart fan, much more interested in L.V. Beethoven and the later romantics.The program I heard, on public radio, destroyed my preconceptions of W. A. Mozart's canon and left me in tears. This episode of 'Enjoy Classical Music' has recharged my passion. While I wish I could find the Music West episode, this production will more than adequately fill the void!

I could tell just from the thumbnail it was gonna be the Mozart 'Jupiter' Symphony. (I recognized the sheet music.)

Glorious! Thank you for breaking this down so visually.

Many years ago, my girlfriend, a conservatory grad, asked me my "desert island" choice of music. I immediately said "The Jupiter". It would remind me of what music is all about. Nicely parsed, young man.

Outstanding, but I thought you were going to bring us the moment toward the end of the movement where Mozart inverts the theme. This just blew me away as a fifteen year old discovering the music. How beautiful it all was...

This piece of the 41st symphony gave me almost highest note for the music exam at high school final exams, (Baccalauréat), so I will always remember it with love an nostalgia!

Music so noble yet exhilarating, in a word Jovial!

I think out of all movements of the Jupiter Symphony, the first and the last movements are outstandingly masterful, while the second and third movement is beautiful.

Thank you for opening my ears to this wonderful piece. Truly, I will never hear it the same way again.

Thank you! I've tickets to experience Mozart's Jupiter with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra next month and have been binging on various versions and explanations in preparation. I love this!

Thanks so much for making this video. I have been looking for a video like this last year when I wanted to show friends and family the beauty, briljante and complexity of the 4th movement. Your video perfectly captures both graphical in in words, so even a layman without knowledge about scores can understand it.

I could just nod in agreement when you revealed the piece in your claim. This passage is the only music in Mozart’s repertoire that has brought me to tears, for it’s creativity and execution. When I first sat down and gave this symphony all of my attention, as a young teenager in the 70’s, the thought struck me that Mozart might have known this was his last symphony and was pressed to give all he had left within him into the score. It truly is the moment in the performance I always anticipate. Hence, I judge a performance by this passage - it’s clarity and precision.

Incredibly satisfying and joyous! Thank you!

I really like your work. Please keep up the good work. Your energy and easy conversational approach is very helpful 😊

Magnificent analysis!

I have loved classical music for over 65 years and final movement of Jupiter never ceases to amaze me. If I could only listen to 1 piece of music for rest of my life..this is it. How can 1 human brain create such genius as this.!!

Very well created. It unravels GENIUS

Thanks for this video! Very well and clearly explained. This part of the symphony is my favourite and it's a masterpiece of counterpoint!

Wunderbar! 🥲 Thank you!

Thank you. Really nice job illustrating this.

Exceptional video idea.

I didn't even realize it was a fugato, very pleasing to hear! My favourite part in classical music is the Millionen X Ode to Joy double fugue in the last movement of Beethoven's 9th

Loved this! Thank you!

Very well done video! Thank you!

Thank you, such a pleasure of simplicity for new ears and old ears.

For extended greatness in music I turn to Handel in such works as the 'Amen' chorus at the very end of his Messiah. The contrapuntal manipulation including fugal and canonic imitation, stretto and inversion all to serve a massive dramatic orchestral/choral effect is overwhelming.

I always felt it was special but having no musical training do not have the ear to pick out the genious. Thank you.

The best score annotation video I have EVER seen. Great job.

Thanks--that was very enjoyable. The contrapuntal combination of all the themes towards the end is indeed a tour de force and shows how thoroughly Mozart had absorbed Bach's method. Each theme is made so that it will later work with the others--avoiding traffic jams, in a phrase I heard Elliott Carter once use to describe how he wrote his string quartets that were actually double duos.

Wonderfully explained! You've revealed the underlying beauty for us lay persons to enjoy. Thank you for such generous sharing of your knowledge.

Thank you for this very well done video showing Mozarts genius in a nutshell!

Always gives me chills. ❤️❤️❤️

This is a wonderful video, thank you.

Hmm...I think the algorithm gave me a gem of a channel! From the bottom of my heart I wish you all the success sir!

Fantastic score representation! Kudos👏

Great composers dying so young means there is still so much great classical music to be written !

Very good video, Thank You very much !!! :)

Conducting this gives me more joy than almost anything! Xxx😊😊😊😊😊

-- You had me at Mozart.!!

Great job analyzing this work. Even though I was brought up on classical music (playing it also on piano and trombone), and even playing many years in various bands and orchestras, I never cease to be amazed at how much I am missing in much of the music. As with many, I am not a big fan of most of Mozart's music. But then again, I admit that I probably have not actually broken down any of his symphonic works like you have. It seems that Mozart's genius hides in its SEEMING simplicity. But I would argue that this is both the main good and bad aspect of classical music. There is so much subtlety, that most people with NO musical training (or at least little exposure) in classical music, that they find it BORING. I wish it was not so, but it seems to me that it is next to impossible to open the eyes (or should I say ears) of the masses to the GENIUS of Mozart and other classical composers, without having them IMMERSED in classical music, and at least to some degree, formally trained in it. Along with many of my peers, I feel that it is my duty to keep classical music alive by my performing it. But it seems that more than that is needed. Education, in hopefully fun and interesting way, seems to be needed. Thanks to the entertainment industry, THEY have effectively decided on what kind of music people should be listening to. Even early school education has abandoned classical music, best I can tell. And before I am called a snob, I do enjoy many other genres of music, and even compose in a lot of them, sometime mixing aspects of classical music into it. I guess what I am finally getting around to saying, is that I think this video (and possibly your others, I just discovered your channel) is serving an important part in educating the masses, regardless of what level of musical background they might have. I encourage you to continue your important work!

Well done. Love that Jupiter ever since muh student years. The main theme, if you should somehow manage to forget it, is the pitches of the keys of the four Brahms symphonies in a row: C - d - F - e. Any more videos like this one are welcome. Thanks.

Very nice video - thanks for making this

🎉 I have always loved but never appreciated this music as I can now after watching this video 🎉 Thank you! 😄

I love this simphony, it is so great

I love your explanations… I listen and hear the music differently…better. Thank you.

I always thought this part of 41 was absolute genius as well. I wait anxiously every time for it to arrive.

"The greatest 30 seconds of Classical Music" ... maybe ... this is celestial music ...

So good. Thank you

Wow. Thank you.

Joyful moments! 👏👏👏

I couldn't stop hearing your 1st theme each time...

Great video!

The first movement of symphony 40 is also complex, and quite emotional.

Listening to this piece is like looking at the repetetiveness of variegated yarn. Very cool!

Very nicely done. I mean the video. The music is genius, of course..

My favorite 30 seconds is the beginning of “Lever du jour” from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé. ❤

30 fantastic seconds Beautiful Fugue

reminds me when I realized how much Mozart had managed to pack into the finale of Cosi fan Tutte - it seemed in every line there was a new emotion represented, and yet it flowed as one melody. Now I have to listen to 41 from the beginning...

Have always adored this. Refreshing that it's not Bach. I am addicted to Bach-- Have subscribed. Thank you.

Thank you.

What you described most clearly, was the work of a genius! which Mozart was. I firmly believe that all the best, or should I say, the most popular music composers were given the same gift of music! You cannot contrive such a masterpiece by thinking about it, or trying to engineer it, it is a divine gift, and I believe that the music is already in them, just waiting to come out!

you did a wonderful presentation here

A fine small lecture on a fine contender for the best 30 seconds.

Mozart was a real genius of music. No hype, no exaggeration for posterity. Really genius.

In the last few years, I've come to believe that the "Jupiter" can stand alongside any of Beethoven's symphonies and not suffer by the comparison.

I first heard this when I was 17. I didn't understand all the subtilities, of cource, but I knew instinctively that this was something special. Now I understand that you have to have a sence of Plato's "The Good, The True and The Beautiful" to fully appreciate somerhing like this.

Thanks for putting it in the description so I can skip the video and take you up on your recommendation.

1:42 Until this point the 4 bar theme was presented one-after the other. Here, the first note of theme starts on the last note of the previous iteration which picks up the pace and precipitates a cadence before launching into the 2nd theme. It's a simple gesture, but important as it allows the music to escape the 4-square regularity and push forward.

Thanks, that helped - several decades ago the late Bernard Levin raved about The Jupitor, but I never quite got it.

My favorite 30 seconds (actually longer than 30 seconds) of classical music is Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta, the last movement at the Allegretto. This is the theme that starts the piece. if you dont have goosebumps when this ends you are dead! Treat yourself and listen to the entire composition while following the score. It is a testament to mankind and I always feel empowered at the last chord. I can't imagine hearing it in an orchestra hall live. Im sure I would die, but that's ok! Enjoy this powerful piece of music!

A pleasure

Now I understand it! I have been trying to untangle it for years.

Sublime.