Kegelstatt trio

The Trio Kegelstatt K. 498 (in French: “Trio the Skittles”) is a Trio for Clarinette, viola and Piano in semi major flat composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in August 1786.

Genesis

It is at his/her friend Viennese Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin, chemistry teacher and botany and lit spirit, that Mozart composed this pearl of Chamber music. The manuscript indicates August 5th 1786 like goes back to completion. According to the legend, it is at the time of part of Quille S that Mozart would have had the inspiration of it, from where this nickname Kegelstatt allotted by certain editors to work.

A pupil of Mozart, Caroline von Pichler indicated that it would have been composed for Franziska von Jaquin, another pupil of Mozart, accomplished pianist and girl of his host.

Creation would have been given by it by Franziska to the piano, Mozart with the viola (it is known that he liked to play this instrument, his Symphonia concertante for violin and viola testifies to it) and by Paul Anton Stadler with the clarinet, a musician that Mozart admired much and for whom he had written his Concerto for clarinet and Quintette with clarinet .

The trio “of the Skittles” was thereafter published in 1788 with Vienna, by the Artaria editor, with part of Violon like alternative to that of clarinet.

Work in detail

The Trio, composed of three movements, has a rather traditional form.
  1. Andante
  2. Menuetto
  3. Rondo. Allegretto
Its instrumentation on the other hand is innovative, no type-setter not having before Mozart gathered together viola, Clarinette and Piano. It besides will be taken again later on, at the 19th century in particular, by Robert Schumann with his Märchenerzählungen and max Bruch with its Eight parts for clarinet, viola and piano .

The manuscript

The Manuscrit of the Trio Kegelstatt of Mozart made party a time of the collection of the Compositeur and musicographe Charles Malherbe which made gift of it, in 1912, with the National library of France where it since is preserved in an excellent state. A numerical reproduction of the manuscript is consultable besides on Internet site of BnF: Gallica (see lower bond).

External bonds

  • Manuscript of the Trio of the Skittles on Gallica
  • Article on the Trio of the Skittles

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