Klarinet Archive - Posting 000005.txt from 2009/01

From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: If Mozart Were Alive Today...
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:06:57 -0500

Hmm you may have set another rabbit running there. I thought there was an
argument to be made that Mozart did include innovation in his toolbox.

"Mozart was known for his innovation and ability to take virtually any
combination of instruments and create a piece that was pleasing to the ear.
Before he composed his "Kegelstatt" Trio for piano, clarinet, and viola in
1786, no one had ever before used that combination of instruments. He wrote
it for a family he was friends with, to be played at their house, with
Mozart himself playing viola for the premiere."

regards
Peter Gentry

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Osborn [mailto:feanor33@-----.net]
Sent: 01 January 2009 18:57
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Re: If Mozart Were Alive Today...

To get back to the original point.....
Mozart would not be writing rap, because Mozart was not an innovator
(rap being fairly new right now). He was the apotheosis of the
style. Haydn was the innovator. Beethoven too, and Schoenberg (but not
Berg).

Sean
www.osbornmusic.com

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