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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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This story broke a few days ago. The new concerto, supposedly discovered in a Swiss library, will receive its first performance on Dec. 2.
I'm a bit skeptical. The concerto supposedly was composed when Mozart was 21 and living with his friend, the flutist and composer Johann Baptist Wendling.
All of Mozart's solo flute music was composed at around this time, as he had received a commission for it from a wealthy amateur. Broke as he was, he never bothered to finish the commission and in the end received less than half the agreed-upon amount.
It seems highly unlikely he would have composed but failed to submit a third concerto (in addition to the two that are known) if it could have brought him more money. The key is what is contained in Mozart's letters to his father at the time.
I look forward to hearing the Dec. 2 performance online.
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Topic - New Mozart flute concerto??? - rbolaw 17:35:22 11/27/16 (6)
- Maybe he just wrote part of it and Wendling wrote the rest of it? - Chris from Lafayette 23:55:31 11/27/16 (3)
- Just listened to a couple of Wendling flute concertos. - rbolaw 16:50:16 11/28/16 (2)
- Worse than Danzi and Pleyel? Wow!. . . that does sound pretty dreary! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 17:01:34 11/28/16 (1)
- Yup. Listen for yourself. - rbolaw 17:33:09 11/28/16 (0)
- How fun though, do you think you'll be able to sense whether or not it's the real deal? - jdaniel@jps.net 21:04:06 11/27/16 (1)
- Yes. - rbolaw 07:41:50 11/28/16 (0)
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