Klarinet Archive - Posting 000455.txt from 1996/01

From: DR VINCENT P DELUISE <VdeLuise@-----.COM>
Subj: K297b Mozart sinfonia
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 23:51:13 -0500

The story of K 297b, the Eb sinfonia concertante is convoluted.
Robert Levin and Daniel Leeson in 1976/7 made a heroic study of the
work. It is, first of all, in the Anhang (Appendix) of the Kochel
catalog and is not accepted by all as in the master's hand. It may be
someone e;se's work. The tutti sections vary dramatically from what
is accepted as Mozartean, the solo sections are more consistent with
the accepted oeuvre in the concerto literature of Mozart. Maybe the
solo parts are in Mozart's hand and everything else is spurious. In
Mozart's "original" work, the flute took the solo line, with bassoon,
oboe, french horn and orchestra. There is, to my knowledge, no
autograph score. it is listed as K. Anhang 9.
A reconstruction by Levin for fluite, oboe, horn, bassoon and
orchestra exists on Philips LP, 411 134-1. I am sure that this is
also on CD in the 1991 Festschrift, every note by Mozart Philips
collection. Please let me know uf I can provide more info, or ask Dan
Leeson himself!! It is still a beautiful work, apocryphal or not, and
should be played more. I have done it locally.

Vincent P. de Luise, MD