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A Miracle!

Artikel 18.02.2020 20:27

Regarding Mozart's LONDON SKETCHBOOK, composed while aged 8, in London.


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I have the Londoner Skizzenbuch (K.15) in a lovely Hungarian edition and played through it tonight. While at the piano, I thought, "Such perfect little conceptions and so very impressive for a boy of (I imagined) 9 to 12 years of age! For an hour, I just grew more and more amazed at the fertility and confidence of this little guy! Afterward I checked out the Wikipedia article on this oeuvre, and viewed the first five pages of the monogram. A thrill of terror went down my back as I learned that W.A.M. was eight years of age when he dashed these little gems off, and a different kind of terror thrilled me when I saw the tiny child's music-handwriting. It was tidier and more fine-muscle controlled than Beethoven's neatest manuscript hand at age fifty! We all know what the handwriting of an eight year old looks like. How about an unusually intelligent eleven year old? No. The K.15 monograph is the penmanship of a fully developed human being, with fine-motor control as good as it will ever get. And the vocabulary and the phraseology of the music itself is that of a composer, fully immersed in the tradition of the age, with the kind of idiosyncrasy and 'seasoning' which comes only with time, and substantial experience.Truly, the "miracle that occurred at Salzburg" (as Leopold referred to his son), was a veritable miracle, as stupefying and utterly bewildering as the Parting of the Red Sea, or the Raising of Lazarus.







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