Klarinet Archive - Posting 000180.txt from 2004/01

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Mozart's favorite(s)?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:05:55 -0500

My dentist is a workman-like fellow who treats every procedure as "just
another case" --- no fanfare ever, just do the job and move on to the
next case --- but yesterday, for the first time in 30 years, he got a
big grin on his face and he gave his nurse a 'high-five' slap and he
told me, "I'm proud of that one."

So of course I began to think about Mozart.

Why? Because Mozart was such a prolific composer that I can't help
wondering if he ever found himself in a similar situation --- that is,
composing something in work-a-day fashion that made him especially happy
with himself when he was finished?

From what little I have absorbed of Mozart's biography, it seems as if
he was not a "No fanfare, just get the job done" sort of person, and
hence emoting about one particular composition wouldn't stand out from
his normal attitude. But still, I can't help asking: Do we know
whether one or two of his compositions especially pleased and excited
him?

Thank you

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