At 02:59 PM 8/3/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Not pining, but I think Mozart was a much better composer than the ones >mentioned above; it would've been interesting. Any guitar that Mozart >might've heard at that time would probably have been the five course type >anyway...
It was a transitional time for guitar. I suspect the guitars Mozart might have encountered might have been left single strung as five-stringers, at least later in his life. There is also a fair chance he would have encountered mandoras in tunings identical or nearly so to later six-string guitars. Albrechtsberger, e.g., wrote concerti for mandora. On the quality of Mozart's light efforts at composition, I don't know that he would have offered the guitar anything to qualify as any more profound than de Fossa, Sor, or Giuliani did shortly after Mozart's passing. His mandolin song accompaniments, e.g., are very pleasant, sprightly, attractive, etc. but a little on the light side and, not being known as a mandolinist, a little light on exploiting the mandolin's technical capabilities. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
