Modena, 'Fondo Luchesi' : T203-K203

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Luchesi-Mozart
T203-K203

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I : Andante Maestoso, Allegro Assai (Mp3 1.19Mb) ;
II : Andante (Mp3 1.65Mb) ;
III : Menuetto (Mp3 681k) ;
IV : Finale Prestissimo (Mp3 629k)

• T203-K203 :
  This symphonic version exists at Modena and comes from a period when Serenades were composed without concertante movements and without a second minuet. This version is certainly not a Serenade. It predates Mozart’s KV203. It is specifically marked as a 4 movement SINFONIA. This manuscript is again a symphony composed by Luchesi that was later transformed in to a Serenade by Mozart adding a violin concertante part and a minuet. After gaining little success in his attempts at writing symphonies and after the embarrasing failure of KV297 in Paris, the so-called Paris Symphony, (at which time due to the request that he change the original Minuet) it was discovered Mozart was also not the true composer of KV297. Mozart’s Paris patron, Baron Melchiorre von Grimm, immediately compelled Mozart to leave Paris by the first available coach to Strasbourg where he arrived eventually at Mannheim – local talk being that he, Mozart had somehow ‘died’ – artistically, of course. (This rumour is refered to in Mozart family correspondence of the time). The available evidence indicates Mozart was not even known in music circles as a symphony writer until around 1783, but limited himself in the years prior to 1783 to transforming into Serenades several symphonies supplied to him privately by Andrea Luchesi (e.g. T203-K203 ; T320-K320 ; T385-K385). The watermarks on this particular symphonic manuscript at Modena are ‘Nic Heisler’ – Bavarian in origin – a type of paper commonly used at Bonn.
• Scoring :
  2 Oboi, 2 Corni, Violini I e II, Viole, Basso
  
• Movements :
  I Andante Maestoso , Allegro Assai ; II Andante ; III Menuetto ; IV Finale Prestissimo
• Meaningful variants are found in the melodic content of this Modena version, also in slurs, bowings, accents, and in various dynamic markings.

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