Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2010/04

From: Michael Nichols <mrn.clarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] K. 622 in G? Part 2
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:32:23 -0400

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.net> wrote:
> =A0 =A0I'm sure that the Mozart K. 622, like many fine works,
> have been transcribed to various instruments over time.
> But I still seem to remember something about someone
> telling me, or reading it in a book, that Mozart himself
> transcribed it into G Major to become his Third Flute
> Concerto in the last 2 months of his life.

Are you sure you aren't confusing K.622 with K.314? Mozart originally
wrote that one as an oboe concerto in C (and if you ask me, it sounds
a lot better that way), but he later bumped it up a key and "recycled"
it into a flute concerto in D (flute concerto #2) when a flutist
commissioned him to write a new flute concerto. Actually, if I'm not
mistaken, this flutist actually intended for Mozart to write him three
concertos, but wasn't too pleased about Mozart's handing him a
rehashed old work, so he refused to pay Mozart for it, and Mozart
never ended up writing the other two concertos. I'm sure Dan knows
the rest of the story.

You'd think that after that bad experience with adapting K.314 for
flute, Mozart wouldn't have tried to pull the same stunt again, at
least not on a paid commission. :-)

Mike Nichols
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