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Mozart - Complete Works for Two Pianos | Musicaphon M56919

Mozart - Complete Works for Two Pianos

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Label: Musicaphon

Cat No: M56919

Barcode: 4012476569192

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 15th November 2010

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Heard for the first time on this CD are all of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s completed and preserved fragments of works for two pianos. Mozart finished only two works for this setting, the Sonata in D Major, K.448 and the Fugue in C Minor, K.428.

There is hardly another composer who left behind such a large number of fragments. Even Schubert abandoned fewer works than Mozart. The cognizance of the value of musical fragments, even if they were unperformable in the form at hand, was described by Mozart’s widow Constanze in a letter, dated 1 March 1800, to the publishers Breitkopf & Härtel: “Fragments of classical authors ... are valuable. Among the musical [fragments], those by Mozart certainly deserve great respect and admiration. Had this great master of the art of music not proffered so many completed works, these superb remnants alone would have been an adequate monument to his inexhaustible spirit.

Annette Toepel and Iwan Urwalow here perform all these fragments, some of them arranged to make them playable by the Mozart-specialized editor at Baerenreiter publishers Michael Toepel, along with the few finished works.

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