Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2006/06

From: Laurence Beckhardt <lbeckhardt@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] K361 again - pp. 53 & 54
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:07:20 -0400

I'm looking at pages 53 and 54 of the Library of
Congress Facsimile of the "Gran Partita, K.361." The
famous measure 111 with its almost certainly ambiguous
and smudged prima volta marking appears on p. 54.

I notice that there are over a dozen drops of liquid
on these two pages, and similar drops do not appear
anywhere else in the autograph, as far as I can tell.

Does anyone know what caused these drops? Are they
ink? Are they water? Are they tears? Saliva? And
why here and not anywhere else?

And one more: why are there so many blank pages (4)
before the Finale? Is it possible that Mozart planned
another variation, or perhaps another movement
altogether?

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