Klarinet Archive - Posting 000318.txt from 2005/11

From: "Antoine T. Clark" <trioarioso@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Did Mozart improvise when he performed for more than a fewmeasures?
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:01:19 -0500

Mr. Leeson come to the rescue.
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From: "Ormondtoby Montoya" <or3mondtoby@-----.net>
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Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 2:51 PM
Subject: [kl] Did Mozart improvise when he performed for more than a
fewmeasures?

> 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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