Murphy Music

Mozart was in love with the sound of the clarinet. He wasn’t able to fully express on paper his adoration for the instrument until the last few years of his life when he met and befriended Anton Stadler. A close friend of Mozart’s and fellow Freemason, Stadler was one of the great clarinetists of Mozart’s time. He was Mozart’s inspiration for this piece as well as the Clarinet Concerto (K. 622). Both this piece and the concerto were written originally for basset clarinet, an instrument whose design was mostly improvisations by Stadler himself. (continue reading…)