Klarinet Archive - Posting 000633.txt from 1995/09

From: Jay Winick <winickj@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Kegelstaat Trio
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 13:27:12 -0400

>Trio and found that, as he had suspected, it was mis-named. He
>supposedly found that the opus # (pre-Kochel) had been mixed up with a
>little piece of fluff which was the original Kegelstaat piece. His thesis
>was that the Trio was far too serious a work to have been written at a
>bowling green. So he looked and found evidence of a mix-up. Does anyone
>else remember anything about such an article or this kind of research? Is
>it from a dissertation? Hey John Cohler and Dan Leeson...know anything
>about this?
>
>Fred Jacobowitz
>
The story goes that the work was dedicated to the Franzisca Jasquin, a
student of Mozart. The only known reference to the game "skittles"
(Keggelstaat) is in the margin of the K 487 Wind Duets.

Regards,

Jay