Author: Cdh
Date: 2024-04-26 03:52
>>With this reconstruction there are now a total of 5 low B's which were likely to have been composed by Mozart in KV 581 and KV 622. That is now simply too many to ignore.<<
What's really striking is that all the B's are preceded by low d's, and not by low c. It's only 4 distinct cases, because two of them are the same music, but it's just enough to be a pattern.
Most likely Stadler showed Mozart, or Mozart simply noticed, that the knee hole could be closed in advance without changing the pitch of the other notes. That is obviously not possible if the preceding note is low c.
So, Mozart chose what he thought to be the more idiomatic way to employ the low B. But if Stadler changed *all* of them, why? Either:
1. He found it was too risky in performance.
or
2. Something changed which made it less idiomatic, almost impossible
What could that have been? Perhaps he switched the direction of the bell...
Now you could argue that it's a bit circular, because I have chosen/devised the reconstructions, but the thing is, they compose themselves once you have precisely put your finger on what the problem is. And I'm not on a hunt for low B's - if I were I would like to think that it wouldn't have taken me 25 years!
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