Posted on 09/20/2008 9:19:09 AM PDT by SunTzuWu
(PARIS) — A French museum has found a previously unknown piece of music handwritten by Mozart, a researcher said Thursday. The 18th century melody sketch is missing the harmony and instrumentation but was described as important find.
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I believe it was What's My Melodic Line?
From his bio... Peter Schickele was born on July 17, 1935, in Ames, Iowa, and brought up in Washington, D.C. and Fargo, North Dakota, where he studied composition with Sigvald Thompson. He graduated from Swarthmore in 1957, having had the distinction of being the only music major (as he had been, earlier, the only bassoonist in Fargo). By that time he had already composed and conducted four orchestral works, a great deal of chamber music and a number of songs. He subsequently studied composition with Roy Harris and Darius Milhaud, and with Vincent Persichetti and William Bergsma at The Juilliard School of Music. He composed music for high schools in Los Angeles under a Ford Foundation grant before returning to teach at Juilliard in 1961. In 1965 he gave up teaching to become the freelance composer/performer he has been ever since.
Of the several dozen symphony concerts I've been to, his was definitely one of the most memorable.
Looks like the Köchel catalogue gets reworked.
I’m particularly fond of his Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons (S.66).
Indeed. I love Wolfie!
My local classical DJ played an early Mozart symphony the other day. At its conclusion, he asked the audience:
“And what were YOU doing at the age of 8?”
It’s just a sketch of a melody.
I know, but we know enough of mozarts style to flesh out a representation
Musicians could make a career of variations if it a good melody.
OK PDQ. L0L
Fellow aficionados...while we are at it...
Frankly, in my view, any thinking parent of a teenager must surely admire the prescience of one such as Schickele, in anticipating our post-Madonna pop culture and the need for institutions such as the State Reformatory for Young Hussies and Trollops. :-)
Yaaaahh Heee! L0L!
I saw PDQ once and it was a was a laff riot David Ogden Stiers conducted and the San Diego City council sat in on...vacuum cleaners, shot guns...balloon popping..Kazoos...
Who can forget it? Right next to the campus, it made the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople the party school that it was.
Thanks for the note. I have been away from FR for a long while. Illness and inertia among other things.
Hope you’re feeling better.
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