Klarinet Archive - Posting 000123.txt from 2005/02

From: Kelly J. White <cealleach@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Language issues when researching Mozart?
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:04:57 -0500


On Feb 5, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

> Dan, I'm still struggling with the concept that a notation which is
> catalogued in Grove has escaped attention for all these years --- but
> I'd like to ask a related question:
>
> You mentioned that you have discovered a translation error in one of
> Mozart's wife's letters. Was this a modern error (last 25 years), or
> was it something older that involved translating from German to
> Italian,
> and perhaps finally to English? (I assume that German was Mozart's
> wife's primary language?)
>
> I ask this because I've noticed that expressions and instrument names
> in
> Mozart holographs (the facsimiles that I've seen, and also the
> holograph
> that Library of Congress brought to my town last year) are written in
> Italian, not German. I can imagine that customs of the day prompted
> Mozart to use Italian in his scores, but presumably German was his
> primary language --- in his personal letters and so forth. Why did
> (if
> they did) the Italian musical community have such a 'lock' on musical
> language? Perhaps because the major patrons of the day were Italian?
>
> Thank you,
> Ormond
>
>
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