elvira madigan

[pianonut]

did you know that mozart's piano concerto K 467 was named in the late sixties!  i always wondered why the name elvira.  well, now you know the rest of the story.  it was named because its exquisite slow second movement was used to great effect in a swedish film of that name in the late sixties.

ok i am reading a book about mozart. it's really great. it's called 'what to listen for in mozart' by robert harris.  next week, we're learning about oratorios (much less interesting than piano concertos, imo).  i want three more weeks on concertos.  i hope i can take the concerto class in the fall.  this is what i was born to do.  even if it is just to look at the music and sigh.

[pianonut]

ps one last note--" mozart repeated himself far less than almost any other composer...a technique used in one piano concerto will be abandoned in the next, although they might have been composed less than two weeks apart.  in the K 467 he decided to see how many different musical ideas he could integrate into his movement; more so than in most of his concertos, there is a wealth of melodic material here."

[pianonut]

if you are like me, and know nothing about elvira madigan, the tightrope walker who deserted the circus for an army man, here's your chance:

www.abraxaspress.co.uk/N_elvira.htm#fn1

a very sad story.