Klarinet Archive - Posting 000479.txt from 2004/08

From: <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart`s 'Ave Verum Corpus'
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:33:52 -0400

Many thanks Dan. Is it indeed coincidence I wonder?
With your permission, I`ll send your post to my colleague.
Tony W.

> The first two measures of the Ave Verum Corpus has a distinct
> melodic similarity to the first two measures of the unfinsished
> quartet for clarinet and three basset horns, K. 580a. It is
> possible, of course, for Mozart to have reused these two measures
> (or to have them pop up in his mind in some subconscious way as
> he began to write the Ave Verum Corpus), but it's a stretch - - - - -

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