Modena, 'Fondo Luchesi' : T385-K385

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Luchesi-Mozart
T385-K385 'Haffner II'

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I : Allegro con Spirito (Mp3 915k) ;
II : Andante (Mp3 607k) ;
III : Menuetto (Mp3 649k) ;
IV : Presto (Mp3 791k)

• T385-K385 :
  Leopold Mozart in Salzburg requested his son in 1782 (then in Vienna) in letters of 17th July, 31st July and 7th August 1782 for serenade music for festivities of the Haffner family at Salzburg. The music Mozart eventually sent must have arrived too late because we know the title of nobility conferred on Haffner was actually celebrated on the 29th July 1782. So Leopold was forced at that time to use music by others. He used a symphony already at Salzburg - by Andrea Luchesi. This explains why, when his father ‘returned’ this serenade to him in January 1783 (less than 6 months later) Mozart states that he can’t remember anything of its content. He writes ‘I didn’t remember one note of it’ !. To this version Leopold in Salzburg had added trumpets and timpani parts before sending it back to his son. Mozart, with a Serenade, then transformed it back in to a Symphony but also added Flutes and Clarinets before performing it as entirely his own work in a Vienna concert of 1783.
  This Modena version is therefore the original version on which both Leopold Mozart and later Wolfgang worked (one in Salzburg and the other in Vienna).
  The editors of Koechel do not point out that this Modena manuscript is extremely important. We know for sure the music Chapel of Bonn had as early as 1774 all the instrumentalists that were called for in the version finally produced for the ‘Haffner’ symphony of ‘Mozart’. This copy in Modena doesn’t include those extra woodwinds because it was composed before 1774, when woodwinds at Bonn were only those specified in the frontispiece of this manuscript – 2 oboes, two horns and a bassoon. The movement arrangement is therefore similar to other manuscripts at Modena such as T201/K201 and T203/KV203.
• Scoring :
  2 Oboi ; 2 Fagotti ; 2 Corni ; Violini I e II ; Viole ; Basso
  
• Movements :
  I Allegro con Spirito ; II Andante ; III Menuetto ; Presto
  
• Varianti :
  Very significant variants are found in this manuscript in terms of melody, harmony, in ties and in dynamic markings.
• Other Comments :
  The orchestral parts of this Modena manuscript could never have been performed because they lack measures in their parts - for example in that of the Bassoons. This was a copyist error that becomes evident especially at the end of each part. This Modena version is therefore a surviving copy of a more ancient manuscript, now lost (from possibly 1771-3 ?) and was not used as part of an active archive, but was retained nevertheless.

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