Klarinet Archive - Posting 000291.txt from 2004/02

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] FW: K. 622 and Mozart's Impending Death
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:24:25 -0500

It's a lovely, romantic emotion without a scintilla of evidence that he
knew he was going to die within a short time after completing 622.
According to his wife, Constanze (who was not at all a reliable reporter
of facts), it was not but a week before his death when he realized that
it was upon him.

As for the music being bubly in the last movement, so what? He wrote
some remarkably sad music when he was happiest, and vice versa.

You are of course a free agent to pursue this issue or any other one you
like. But there is no substance or evidence that he created 622 in the
realization of his death.

Dan

Shaw, Kenneth R. wrote:

>There's been an interesting thread on the Clarinet board about the
>finale of the Mozart Concerto, and, recently, whether anything shows his
>sense of impending death.
>
><http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=137812&t=13781
>2>
>
>The historical question is whether Mozart was seriously ill when he
>wrote the Concerto. The question of how it affected him is always
>speculative, but it seems to me that it's worth thinking about.
>
>I feel a great emotional density in the slow movement, and it can be
>played so as to draw tears.
>
>However, the finale has always seemed joyful to me. Still, it's not a
>light, bubbling rondo. This is great music, and it can be played in
>many ways, including with an underlying melancholy and sense of tragedy.
>Does anyone think of it this way? Is there enough there to support
>playing it this way?
>
>Best regards.
>
>Ken Shaw
>
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