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Guide to Performing
Mozart’s Keyboard Concertos
Published guides to the performance of specific works were almost unknown
in the 18th century, when the repertory was constantly changing and new
music was the order of the day. A. E. Müller (1767-1817), a Kapellmeister
in Leipzig between 1794 and 1810, was principal flutist in the Gewandhaus
Orchestra, organist at the Nicholaikirche, and from 1804, cantor at the
Thomaskirche. His wife, Elisabeth Catherina Rabert, performed Mozart's
piano concertos as soloist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. This "Instruction
on the True Manner of Performing Mozart's Keyboard Concertos, Principally
with Regard to Correct Fingering" was probably jointly authored by
the couple. The publication demonstrates that Mozart's concertos were
already on their way to becoming "classics." On the other hand,
however, that the subsequent volumes covering the rest of Mozart's piano
concertos never appeared suggests that sales of vol. 1 may have been poor.
This copy is in the Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.
August Eberhard Müller (1767-1817), Anweisung
zum genauen Vortrage der Mozartschen Clavierconcerte hauptsächlich
in Absicht richtiger Applicatur. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel,
[1796].
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