Klarinet Archive - Posting 000599.txt from 2001/01

From: Andrea Bergamin <a.bergamin@-----.it>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:13:23 -0500

Il giorno 17.01.01 23:11, Daniel Leeson, leeson0@-----.net ha scritto:

> 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."

It is absolutely and unambiguously an error.

The word "Partita" identifies a genre of music and the double T is just a
misspelling.

Since Mozart was able to speak Italian very well, I don't think he could
have deliberately adopted a wrong spelling of the word "partita".

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