New Mozart

[khiemtran]

For someone who has been dead for over two hundred years, Mozart's annual output is quite impressive. New pieces keep coming up all the time, although considering his current medical condition (last reported as "stable") most of them are simply older works resurfacing after being forgotten. This week saw the announcement of two such pieces for keyboard, although I gather they are probably juvenile pieces.

Also tantalising is the number of pieces we know about that haven't surfaced yet. We know he wrote cello concertos. We know he wrote more bassoon concertos than just the one. And, most intriguingly of all, we know about the sinfonia concertante for solo flute, oboe, bassoon and horn which Mozart mentions writing in Paris, but no score has ever been found. Intriguingly, what has been found is a sinfonia concertante for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn by an unnamed composer, which has variously been attributed to Mozart, denounced as a crude fake, or, more recently, proposed as someone else's adaption of the real thing.

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

last reported as "stable"

That made me LOL. I'm looking forward to hearing them anyway, because there isn't very much he has written that I don't like. Some of the heavier church music (some of it just appears to have been an opportunity to show off). Some of his juvenile pieces are, well, not very mature, which cannot be held against him. I think the piece I like least is the so-called 'musical joke' which is rather cruel and lacking finesse, and *so* makes me want to side with the film Salieri and want to slap him.

[hairmonger.livejournal.com]

I made a rock bassist laugh once by comparing a Grateful Dead song to the Musical Joke. I forget which song it was, but I said "They packed every possible jazz music cliche into _one song_!" and he looked at me funny, and I said "It's just like Mozart's Joke Symphony" and he laughed and said he saw what I meant.

Mary Anne in Kentucky

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

That made me LOL.

Well, it was better than the obvious joke about him decomposing...