Klarinet Archive - Posting 000123.txt from 2006/01

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Grand Partita
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:55:06 -0500

There is no information known for certain. The piece just seemed
to appear like a geranium in a flower pot.

But because the only known performance of the work in the
composers lifetime took place on Mar. 23, 1784 in Vienna and
under Stadler's direction (not as conductor but as the guy who
put the concert in place), it is presumed that he commissioned
the work from Mozart, though he probably never paid him for it.

When Mozart died, he owed everybody but one person money. That
was Stadler, and he owed a considerable amount of money to
Mozart, something like 800 or 900 florins which was equivalent to
Mozart's fee for the opera Cosi. So the general conclusion is
that 800-900 florins was owed because of three commissions, the
Gran Partitta, the quintet, and the concerto.

More than this you will not get anywhere.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Forest Aten [mailto:forestaten@-----.net]
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:46 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Grand Partita

Does anyone know for what, who, where, when.etc. Mozart's Grand
Partita was
written/commissioned.etc.

Thanks,

Forest

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