Carl Stamitz, son of Mannheim composer Johann Stamitz, toured all over Europe and was a famous figure in the last third of the 18th century, well regarded almost everywhere. The exception was Mozart, who -- probably out of jealousy, as annotator Olaf Krone suggested (the notes are in English, German, and French) -- wrote that Stamitz and his brother Anton were "miserable note scribblers and players -- boozers and whoremongers -- which isn't my kind of people." The Mozartian pique is especially interesting to devotees of ...
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Carl Stamitz, son of Mannheim composer Johann Stamitz, toured all over Europe and was a famous figure in the last third of the 18th century, well regarded almost everywhere. The exception was Mozart, who -- probably out of jealousy, as annotator Olaf Krone suggested (the notes are in English, German, and French) -- wrote that Stamitz and his brother Anton were "miserable note scribblers and players -- boozers and whoremongers -- which isn't my kind of people." The Mozartian pique is especially interesting to devotees of Harold Bloom's theory of the anxiety of influence, for the music here, much of it written around 1776 for the Concert Spirituel in Paris, represented exactly what Mozart heard when he arrived in Paris, and typified the scene he tried mostly unsuccessfully to break into. The Concert Spirituel series, held at the Tuilieries palace, could boast, like the Mannheim court but unlike Vienna, of substantial orchestral resources. Mozart's Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297 ("Paris"), was,...
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