Klarinet Archive - Posting 000608.txt from 2001/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gran Partitta
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 05:52:38 -0500

As Mozart was clearly dead at the time, it would have been difficult for him to
correct it....
Of course it's bad Italian,. I think Dan L. was pointing out that it can
be justified as a *name* - and only a name.
Roger S.

In message <B68C0D65.5315%a.bergamin@-----.org writes:
> 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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