On the 27th, on the day of Mozart’s birth, pianist Jo Sung-jin’s premiere of Mozart Allegro was unveiled in Europe. [사진 유니버설 뮤직]
– It starts with a cheerful three-quarters night, moves on to a new topic, and ends happily again. Mozart’s’New Song’, who died in 1791, was released on the 27th (local time) in Salzburg, Austria. It is one of the stages of’Mozart Week’ hosted by the Mozartium Foundation in Salzburg, and was performed by Chopin Choi, 26, the winner of the Chopin Competition.
The new song released this time is’Allegro in D major’ work number (K) 626b/16, which is believed to have been written by Mozart at the age of 17. Jo Sung-jin unfolded a short two-page sheet music and expressed a playful Mozart for 94 seconds. It was a lively and inexplicable Mozart style. It was the premiere after 248 years of writing.
According to the Mozartium Foundation, the song was handed over to auction after Mozart’s death, and the foundation purchased what was held by an art dealer in Paris. Ulrich Lysinger, the research director of the foundation, explained that “it has been a long time since Mozart’s unknown works have been released,” he said. “We commissioned four outside experts to judge the authenticity of the handwritten score.” Tobias Debuch, the general manager of the foundation, emphasized that “it was a complete piano song, not a part or sketch of the work.”
Mozart was a composer who was successful in life and was popular after his death. How could his work have been unpublished for 250 years? This’new song release’ raises a lot of curiosity. ‘Unpublished mystery’ was solved with three keywords.
Why did it come out now
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![Handwritten sheet music in D major by Mozart Allegro, released on the 27th. [유튜브 캡처]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202101/28/2e27e8cf-83b7-4b5d-a2b4-7203bec0a8d2.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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Handwritten sheet music in D major by Mozart Allegro, released on the 27th. [유튜브 캡처]
– Mozart has over 600 known works. However, only 144 works were published in his lifetime. At the time of Mozart, it was rare to print and record works, and there were few cases where the same song was repeatedly played through sheet music. Instead, Mozart left behind a vast amount of unpublished sheet music, including incomplete sketch forms. Musician Kang Yong-sik said, “When bombings were predicted in European countries during World War II, scholars took refuge in the library with sheet music and books. Like this, a lot of Mozart scores were scattered.” “There are many cases of Mozart’s unorganized works, especially in Eastern European libraries,” he explained. In the case of this work, Mozart passed it on to his youngest son, but it was found that it was sold several times at auctions.
What happened 248 years ago
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![Ulrich Rysinger researcher of the Salzburg Mozartium Foundation looks at the score of Mozart. [유튜브 캡처]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202101/28/ca745951-68a4-4c13-983e-51a1e390c432.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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Ulrich Rysinger researcher of the Salzburg Mozartium Foundation looks at the score of Mozart. [유튜브 캡처]
– Lisinger of the Mozartium Foundation explained, “I presume that it was written by Mozart in 1773, during or after his trip to Italy.” Young Mozart was a traveling composer. In particular, until he settled in Vienna in 1781, he traveled all over Europe to seek’work’ as a court musician. It was with her father Leopold, who was ambitious for her son.
Musician Sung-ryul Lee explained, “The early 1770s was a time when Mozart suffered frustration after traveling to Italy.” The sudden appearance of a young genius made the music world unsettled, and in the end, Empress Maria Theresia Habsburg, who had the power to find a job in Mozart, wrote a letter stating that “There is no reason to bring people who wander around the town like beggars to the court.” Listed the name of the rich man Mozart. According to the Mozart Foundation’s estimate, this bright and upbeat music was written by a teenage composer who experienced such frustration.
It was discovered late, but why is the work number attached?
– The work that premiered this time was already numbered. K.626b/16. The numbers of Mozart’s works generally follow the order given by the musicologist Ludwig Koehel (1800-1877). In 1862, Köhel numbered a total of 626 songs in the order of the year of composition and organized them with the initial letter K. The last song is the unfinished requiem.
However, after that, unreleased songs were discovered and the year of composition was frequently revised. Accordingly, the Köhel number was revised seven times until the middle of the 20th century. In the process, when there are new discovered works, songs with only sketches, or traces of composition but no originals, the last number, 626, was assigned a lowercase alphabet to number the work. Kang Yong-sik said, “B in 626 seems to be attached in the third revision of the Köchel number,” and explained, “The 42 sketches Mozart left are grouped into 626b, and this is the 16th song”. This work, composed at the age of 17, has the same number as the last song, Requiem.
Allegro, played on the 27th, had a record that it was composed, so the work number was attached, but the original was only found. This phenomenon stems from Mozart’s life and habits. Lee Seong-ryul explained, “It is rare for a composer family to have as many records as the Mozart family.” This premiere song is a 94-second prop, but it gives us a glimpse into the life of Mozart, who traveled to find a job and exchanged letters with his family.
The recorded video of Cho Sung-jin’s last Allegro D major performance, including the Mozart Sonata at the Mozartium Grand Theater in Salzburg, was released in Europe on the Deutsche Grammophone online page, Medici TV, on the 27th. In Korea, LG U+ has provided exclusively on the IPTV service U+tv and mobile media platform U+ Mobile TV from the 27th. Sound sources other than video will be released on the 29th.
Reporter Kim Ho-jeong [email protected]
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