Klarinet Archive - Posting 001014.txt from 2001/02

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: [kl] Landler @-----. 4)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:03:07 -0500

Some descriptions of the Landler dance (try searching Google with
'Landler dance') include jumping and hopping and mild athletic frenzy,
and (allegedly) these acrobatics gave way eventually to the gliding and
smoothness that we associate with waltz today.

I did not research these descriptions sufficiently to uncover
precise dates, and I'm not into musical history sufficiently to
understand this discussion about Mozart's quintet properly anyway; but
the dance descriptions _do_ suggest that frenzy and jumping and hopping
may have been part of the Landler in Mozart's time.
So I can't help wondering if this relates somehow to Mozart's
intentions and understanding of what the Landler was? Should
performance of the Quintet include some musical acrobatics?

I also notice that K.606 is titled "Landler", and Mozart wrote it 2
years after he wrote K.581. Did Mozart choose the name "Landler"
himself, or did later generations choose it?

Cheers,
Bill

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