Unheard Mozart...For the purists out there whose eyebrows are already raised so high that they're on top of your scalp, you may wish to stop right now. For the intrepid, we shall continue. Pianist/composer/educator Anthony Goldstone has taken a smattering of Mozart fragments for piano and, depending on their length, either realized them, completed them, or, in some cases, composed nearly entirely new movements. This practice is certainly not unheard of, particularly with Mozart. The most famous example of this is course the ...
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Unheard Mozart...For the purists out there whose eyebrows are already raised so high that they're on top of your scalp, you may wish to stop right now. For the intrepid, we shall continue. Pianist/composer/educator Anthony Goldstone has taken a smattering of Mozart fragments for piano and, depending on their length, either realized them, completed them, or, in some cases, composed nearly entirely new movements. This practice is certainly not unheard of, particularly with Mozart. The most famous example of this is course the Requiem, which was completed shortly after his death. In the Requiem, however, Mozart wrote a substantial amount of the music himself, and it was completed by a contemporary. In this instance, Goldstone sometimes creates entire movements (such as the middle movement of the F major Sonata) out of as little as four bars of original material. The validity and appropriateness of such a practice will of course be determined by individual listeners, but there's still a question as to how...
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