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Kim Patrick Clow:
>Sussmayer's completion is full of musical blunders. Even Mozart called
>him an idiot while he was alive, and judging from other pieces of music
>he wrote, he was pretty much a hack.
It's also full of musical felicities, such as the Benedictus and
the Agnus Dei. You know, I keep hearing about these blunders, and the
ones that keep getting brought up are simply departures from statistical
norms. As for the other pieces, I agree, but I would say that lightning
struck at least once. Furthermore, Mozart's widow was the one who
denigrated Suessmayr, as part of her marketing strategy. I wouldn't
trust anything she said. She also, if I recall correctly, destroyed
all the original sketches to hinder discovery as to who composed what.
>There are some studies that indicate that the themes from the portions
>that Sussmayer completed are Mozart. These could be based on the missing
>sketches that Mozart's widow mentioned.
Actually, scholars (don't ask me how) have determined who worked on what
movements. This is reflected in the Baerenreiter edition of the score.
Steve Schwartz
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