Klarinet Archive - Posting 000317.txt from 2005/11

From: or3mondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Did Mozart improvise when he performed for more than a few
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:52:58 -0500

My question is motivated by a performance last night in which a jazz
pianist opened with a 10-minute song. Then, about half way through the
concert, he played the same song again but in a completely different
style.

I don't know whether he did this intentionally, or perhaps his
repertoire is so huge and he is so well known for improvisation that he
simply forgot which song he opened with.

But this started me thinking about Mozart because my image of Mozart is
of 'deliberate" performance. My image of him is that he would never
have sat down at a scheduled public performance (I'm including 'soiree'
in this category) and he never would've started with a theme and taken
it on an entirely different path than the one he had already written
down (or published). Thus I'm excluding eingang & cadenza, which are
not "a completely different path".

Is it known whether this is true or not?

Thank you

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