Klarinet Archive - Posting 000247.txt from 1998/06

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart Question
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 11:37:42 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.25
> Subj: [kl] Mozart Question

> I see Dan Leeson is around so I thought I would post this question which came
> up at a discussion I was having with some friends recently.
>
> I was wondering about the first movement of the Mozart trio. Is there another
> work of Mozart which has so many turns written out? For someone who composes
> at such a tremendous rate, all those turns add up to a lot of notes to write!
> If anyone has a non-speculative response, I would really appreciate it.

Interesting you should ask, though there are several people much better
informed on the Kegelstatt than I am. However, I suggest that the items
you refer to as "turns" are such that Mozart wanted something far more
precise than the notiation for a turn could give him. If he had used
that turn notation, then the interpretation of what he meant would have
wandered all over the place, and with a statistical average of them being
played as 32nd notes, which they are not.

But those turns are very precisely given with a structure that one would
be unlikely to get by accident. The actual turn is in 64th notes. Even
written that way, I have heard recordings of the work in which they
are played as 32nd notes. I believe that Mozart wrote the turns out
in order to achieve a specific proportion that he would not have gotten
with the turn symbol. In effect, the turn is twice as fast as you
would expect it to be (which is one of the reasons why the work is
so tough to execute correctly).

I know of no opinion that suggests the work to be missing a first
movement. It has been commented on that it is strange for the
work to have an andante first movement, but that, to the best of
my knowledge, has never been accompanied by the suggestion that
it, therefore, must be missing a first movement.

>
> Also, I just thought of something else relating to this work. I remember
> reading or hearing once that it was possible that there is a missing first
> movement to this piece. Any truth to that?
>
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