Klarinet Archive - Posting 000586.txt from 2001/01

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Gran Partitta
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 17:11:15 -0500

I got an off-list note from a nice and well-meaning person who corrected
my spelling of "Gran Partitta." I hate to be the one standing up while
everyone is sitting down, but "Gran Partitta" is correct and every
single recording, reference, use, etc. of the term "Gran Partita" is in
error.

The use of the title is derived from the fact that it appears on the
autograph manuscript now in the Library of Congress. It is written in
red crayon (though absolutely not in Mozart's hand) in the upper center
of the first page.

The title was added by an unknown person ca. 1803 and has nothing to do
with Mozart, but if it is to be used because of its presence on the
manuscript, then it should be spelled the way it appears on the
manuscript, and that is, absolutely and unambiguously 'GRAN PARTITTA."

For further detail see, Mozart Jahrbuch, 1997, "A Revisit: Mozart's
Serenade for Thirteen Instruments, K. 361 (370a), the 'Gran Partitta'",
pp. 181-223 with particular emphasis on p. 222, "The 'Gran Partitta'
Subtitle."
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