Klarinet Archive - Posting 000762.txt from 2000/07

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] enthused musings upon Mozart Concerto
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:55:49 -0400

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From: <JMarioneau@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] enthused musings upon Mozart Concerto

> Patty,
> I have always thought that it should be marked quarter note@-----. Maybe
> that was an editor's mistake. I feel sure that Mozart probably didn't put
> any metronome marking. Some people play eighth note = 42 and you are
right,
> there is no music at that tempo (IMHO) and it is torturous to sit through
> someone (especially a mediocre student) playing that entire movement that
> slowly.
> James Marioneaux

It would seem highly unlikely that Mozart would have used a metronome
marking. The metronome was invented by Dietrich Nikolais Winkel, who was
born in approximately 1772 and died in approximately 1826. Mozart died in
1791. Thus the inventor of the metronome would only have been about 19 when
Mozart died. Unfortunately the Encyclopedia Britannica does not say when
the metronome actually appeared on the scene.

Dee Hays

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