Hi everyone
Okay, simple question, but a difficult answer.
If you had the chance to ask Mozart to compose something, what should it be?
I think I should aks for a Cello Concerto. There seems to be a lost cello-concerto K206a..., so how interesting should it be to have a new one!
So what do you guys want? Symphony, Divertimento, Concerto, Contradance??? :)
And please no opera, because that's simply too much ;D
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1) A post-beethovenian string quartet
2) A requiem >:D
A complete set of prelude and fugues in all 24 keys for string quartet.
A violin concerto (he doesn't have any mature ones).
More chamber music (duh).
More works for wind instrument(s) (clarinet in particular).
I'd ask him to complete his Requiem, K. 626, before he consider composing anything new . . . . . . .
I would ask him to revisit the violin concerto. :)
Wolferl, take a letter . . . .
Quote from: Leporello on May 17, 2007, 06:36:20 AM
And please no opera, because that's simply too much ;D
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Why not?
Writing opera was a lifelong endeavour for Mozart.
Where's the love in cutting him off from his passion? 8)
Quote from: Leporello on May 17, 2007, 06:36:20 AM
And please no opera, because that's simply too much ;D
Another opera was also the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title of the thread. :'(
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The most enjoyable of Wolfie's works are his piano concertos. How about another 22?
Definitely another clarinet concerto. And I would ask him to please retrieve the manuscript of K.622 so we could finally know exactly how that one goes.
Quote from: Que on May 17, 2007, 08:08:09 AM
Another opera was also the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title of the thread. :'(
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Haha, because I think if you can choose an opera, everybody will do that. And no one will choose a single instrumental work because that's to small... ::)
Quote from: Leporello on May 17, 2007, 08:53:43 AM
Haha, because I think if you can choose an opera, everybody will do that. And no one will choose a single instrumental work because that's to small... ::)
Maybe not just that. For me Mozart reached in opera the pinnacle of his abilities, and I feel opera was the genre closest to his heart.
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Quote from: Que on May 17, 2007, 08:56:53 AM
Maybe not just that. For me Mozart reached in opera the pinnacle of his abilities, and I feel opera was the genre closest to his heart.
Absolutely! Listen to Mozart's chamber music, and indeed much of his orchestral works as well, and you hear arias, recitatives, very operatic ideas realized instrumentally.
So I will go with opera, and it would have been great if Mozart were the one to compose the first true German opera (his German language operas are really more Italian in nature.)
Quote from: Leporello on May 17, 2007, 08:53:43 AM
Haha, because I think if you can choose an opera, everybody will do that. And no one will choose a single instrumental work because that's to small... ::)
Not at all. How about a large-scale piano variations works based on the opening theme to the Requiem?
A cello concerto.
Quote from: Mozart on May 17, 2007, 08:15:24 AM
The most enjoyable of Wolfie's works are his piano concertos. How about another 22?
Good point. Another piano concerto . . . . . . . Only I'd request that Mozart first study the scores to Brahms PC #1 and Rach 3 . . . . . and then go from there . . . . . .
Quote from: springrite on May 17, 2007, 08:59:48 AM
So I will go with opera, and it would have been great if Mozart were the one to compose the first true German opera (his German language operas are really more Italian in nature.)
What do you mean??
If Mozart wrote an opera today it might be too hollywoodish. Get ready for Don Giovanni #2 the most awaited sequel of the last 220 years!
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I would be quite interested to hear what Mozart would do in a post-Jupiter symphony.
How about finishing the K412 horn concerto by providing a middle movement?
i would like a trumpet concerto...but i think it would be most interesting to say, " here's what's happened since you died. use what you wish and do your thing, man. "
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Quote from: Don on May 17, 2007, 09:09:13 AM
How about a large-scale piano variations works based on the opening theme to the Requiem?
Good idea!
Though a Cello Concerto wouldn't be bad either (he could tuck the variations somewhere inside ;D)...
Quote from: Bach Man on May 17, 2007, 09:45:45 AM
A cello concerto.
Violin concertos being some of his finest works and Haydn's cello concertos being marvellous, I approve.
a symphony in the style of Mahler (assuming he is a quick learner)
I'd like to see him dive deeper into the piano sonata waters. With the doors that opened after Beethoven's arrival I bet he could write some F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C solo piano pieces.
Something chromatic, for starters...
A grand ballet in the spirit of Tchaikovski
Quote from: D Minor on May 17, 2007, 09:45:57 AM
Good point. Another piano concerto . . . . . . . Only I'd request that Mozart first study the scores to Brahms PC #1 and Rach 3 . . . . . and then go from there . . . . . .
And thus have the key of D Minor in his subconscious...?
I'd love to have this opportunity, but unfortunately it's not realistic. What is realistic, however, is to find out from the Paris Bibliothèque du Conservatoire what the hell happened to the F Major Cello Concerto. They held it as recently as 1912, when they pulled the first 6 measures to insert into their catalogue. Those 6 measures still exist. The rest... what did they do to it?! I mean, it wasn't a fragment or anything, it was completed in March 1775. 1912 is fairly recent to be losing a Mozart work, though of course tons of music was lost forever in the two World Wars. You'd just have thought by then someone would have gotten around to making copies. Then again, Mozart's Cello Concerto is not the (probably eternally) lost piece of music to suffer from such lack of forsight.
There is the unfinished Triple Concerto that includes a cello soloist, a couple of people have tried to flesh it out, but consensus seems to be that there's not enough material to be at the point where it just needs to be touched up. Still, there are several completed versions out there, dating from the 1800s on up to more recent ones.
If? Definitely a Broadway musical.
He could write the soundtrack to "Amadeus II: The Revenge of Salieri."
Perhaps he could finish out Beethoven and Mahler's 10th symphonies
Quote from: bwv 1080 on May 18, 2007, 12:42:59 PM
Perhaps he could finish out Beethoven and Mahler's 10th symphonies
And the finale to Bruckner's Ninth . . . . . .