Wednesday, March 28, 2007


on "repeat" at the manse this morning the teenage Mozart's "Jenamy" Concerto #9 K.271--

"K. 271 bears another kind of significance. Its name "Jeunehomme Concerto", to which audiences grew accustomed during the twentieth century, is a product of pure fantasy and of wilful invention. It is a musical nickname created by Mozart scholarship in a fit of total blindness. For the last ninety-two years this famous concerto has been performed under a wrong name..."