Gran Partitta

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AuthorHouse, 2009 - Music - 168 pages
The book is an attempt to gather in one place the important and critical information about Mozart's Serenade in B-flat, K. 361 for 13 instruments. The work is a very popular one, though, paradoxically, rarely performed due to its unusual instrumentation. Every effort was made to have the text of the book easily read, even though some of the technical issues involved have considerable complexities.

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Contents

Have Basset Horns Will Travel
9
The Basic Issues
13
Mozarts Paper Ink and Pens
15
The K 361 Manuscript
27
The Holographs Peripatetic History
33
Subtitle
39
Instrumentation
43
The Date of Composition
47
One Measure Too Many
101
The TwoStage Theory
113
Mozarts Alleged Wedding Serenade
115
Other Works Containing K 361 Music
121
A Salute to Fritz Volbach
137
Biography Of Johann Friedrich Schink
143
Roger Hellyers Case For 1781
147
Bastiaan Blomherts Case For K 361s Octet Version
153

The Date of Composition
61
The First Edition
75
Performance Issues
85
Seating Arrangements and Conductors
93
The Third Trio for Minuet 2
97
The gran Partitta Manuscript Undergoes Conservation
157
First American Performance Boston March 6 1911
165
Author biography and Informal Photo
167
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Leeson's degrees are in mathematics and he was an employee of the IBM Corporation for almost 30 years, after which he taught mathematics at De Anza College in California State for another 15 years. He is also one of America's leading Mozart specialists, with a particular emphasis on Mozart portraiture. He has published articles in the Mozart; Letters, Eighteenth Century Music

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