Klarinet Archive - Posting 000793.txt from 1999/04
From: avrahm galper <agalper@-----.com> Subj: [kl] Improvising Mozart Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:44:26 -0400
Improvising Mozart
I also saw that hour show on the genius of Mozart. It was, of course,
way too short!
Mozart was known for his ability to improvise. Sometimes there were
competitions between artists to do so. Who came off the winner- of
course MOZART.
What Robert Levin showed of a MSS of a pupil to have scribbled what she
heard of Mozart do in the slow movement in the KV 488, was quite
illuminating.
I don't think, however, that I could improvise like that in 622.
I can barely play the notes as they are, so for me to improvise.?
A few years ago, Vladimir Horowitz played that same concerto in a film
made in Rome.
The novelty was that he played Mozart at all.
My late friend, Leo Barkin , a wonderful piano accompanist, told me that
Horowitz never played Mozart at all. Leo said that Horowitz said that
he didn't understand Mozart.
In this TV film, filmed in Rome, he played this same concerto 488
magnificently. On the show afterwards he said that for him, there is
only Mozart.
Horowitz died a year or two after this film was made. I guess he didn't
get to learn of lot of Mozart
We know that many players put in additions and other ornamentation.
Baermann played the concerto. Did he improvise on it also?
I once saw a copy of the Mozart concerto edited by Baermann. I remember
one passage that was different. In the first movement , there is a
chalumau passage, E-G-E/-B -A#-B-A#@-----.
Everyone knows this one. What I saw in Baermann's edition was:
E-B-E/-B-B-C-B-B-F#-B-A/G-E.
This change is to be found in Giamperi's Mozart version.
To be candid, I'm happy with the notes of the Concerto as they exist,
and try and do my best.
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Avrahm Galper
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