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Re: Anyone ever played...

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-05-24 20:55

LarryBocaner wrote:

> I had a nice converstion about this very subject with
> Christopher Hogwood when I played a Mozart festival with him a
> few years back. It is his theory that Mozart abandoned the G
> major version of K622 when Stadler no longer had access to a G
> bassett horn to play it on. (Perhaps he pawned it, sold it to
> pay gambling debts, who knows). Anyway, Hogwood finds the
> orchestral accompaniment much more friendly in G -- more open
> strings, better tessitura for horns etc.

But the question still is, Larry: would the orchestral accompaniment be the same if the work had been completed for basset horn?

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