Klarinet Archive - Posting 000988.txt from 2003/04

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gran Partita or Gran Partitta (only tangentially on-topic)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:45:24 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: deehays [mailto:deehays@-----.net]
>
> One thing to be careful is that languages change over time. The
> Italian of
> today is not identical to the Italian of Mozart's time.
>

And, if anything, this is even more true of spelling. Look at letters by
colonial Americans - ones we call heroes today. Was there a standard Italian
dictionary in Mozart's time? And as an Austrian, would he (or whoever wrote
the subtitle on the score) have had ready access to a copy of it?

Karl Krelove

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