b'Program Notescontinuedof fast repeated notes. Filippenko grew up in a small village outside Kyiv, playing folk instruments including the shepherds pipe, guitar, mandolin, and balalaika. He learned the piano as a teenager and graduated in 1939 from the Lysenko Music Institute, now the Kyiv Conservatory, where he studied under some of the leading Ukrainian composers of the time, including Revutsky, Kosenko, and Lyatoshinsky.InstrumentationSolo piano Duration3Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Serenade for Winds in C Minor, K. 388Composed 1782 or 17831782 was an important year for Mozart both professionally and personally. Having left the security and the restrictions of his full-time employment in the service of Archbishop Colloredo of Salzburg the previous year, he was working to establish himself as an independent composer and pianist in Vienna. Mozart gave his first solo piano concert in March, and in July he achieved his first major operatic success with Die Entfhrung aus dem Serail. His growing compositional maturity can be seen in other important works from this year, including the Haffner Symphony, K. 385, and his String Quartet in G Major, K. 387. His marriage to Constanze Weber in August heightened Mozarts need to achieve financial independence, and the couples first child was born the following June. The circumstances of the composition and premiere of Mozarts Serenade for Winds, K. 388 are unknown. This Nacht Musique, as he called it, more closely resembles a symphony than a serenade in its four movement structure, formal complexity, and serious character. Written for pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons, and horns, the C Minor Serenade was quite unique at its time of composition, which was likely during the summer of 1782 or perhaps in 1783. The instrumental combination itself was relatively new, partly due to the recent evolution and success of the clarinet. continued.princetonsymphony.org/ 15'