At 1:35 PM -0500 3/13/06, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
Aha! I found this on the Barenreiter website itself:
In Mozart's day the Italian operatic symphony normally consisted of
three rather short orchestral pieces in the order fast - slow -
fast. For Ascanio in Alba, however, he characteristically varied the
conventional formula. That this was something unusual is made clear
by the fact that Leopold Mozart took pains to give an exact account
of this overtura to his wife: "So far Wolfgang has only written the
overture, that is, a rather long Allegro, followed by an Andante,
which has to be danced, but only by a few people. Instead of the
final Allegro he has composed a kind of contredanse and chorus to be
sung and danced at the same time."
I have no idea why Mr. Hogwood doesn't recall this being in the
vinyl edition of the Symphonies. Neal Zaslaw talked about this in
the liner note; and it was included in the recordings.
Mystery solved ;)
Not quite. Inquiring minds still await a K number and perhaps a
date. How "early" is early? New Grove I has no listing of a
Symphony with dancing and singing, although the way they break up his
works it could well be listed under something other than Symphony.
John
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