Klarinet Archive - Posting 000125.txt from 2006/01

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Grand Partita
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:39:33 -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
>
>
Thanks Dan.....

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