http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/arts/15ARTS.html

   MOZART BY ITS RIGHTFUL NAME

   A Mozart mystery has been solved at last.  So says the
   musicologist Michael Lorenz, an expert on the Viennese music
   of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the proof of
   the pudding will be served on Thursday in Vienna when the
   pianist Robert Levin sits down to join Sir Roger Norrington
   and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart to play Mozart's
   piano concerto in E-flat (K. 271) for the first time under
   its proper name.  For more than a century, Dr. Lorenz says,
   the identity of the French pianist for whom the young Mozart,
   above, wrote the piece has baffled Mozart scholars, and the
   work has been known as the "Jeunehomme" Concerto.  Dr. Lorenz
   says that jeune homme, or young man, a reference to Mozart,
   was the name given to it by a pair of French scholars in a
   1912 biography because they couldn't identify the woman for
   whom he actually wrote it.  After that, he says, scholars
   refrained from further research.  Mozart, in a letter to his
   father, Leopold, after finishing the concerto in January 1777,
   referred to the pianist as "jenomy," and Leopold referred to
   her as "Madame genomai." Dr. Lorenz says the mystery woman
   was actually Victoire Jenamy, a daughter of Jean George
   Noverre, a famous dancer who was one of Mozart's best friends.
   Dr. Lorenz says a bit of research in the City Archive of
   Vienna last year established that Victoire was an excellent
   pianist, and it was she who commissioned the concerto in
   Vienna in 1776.  Adieu Jeunehomme.  Enter, for the first time,
   the "Jenamy" Concerto.  LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

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