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Spring 2019 18 PAN PIPES A World of Music By Jayne I. Hanlin N ovember 14, 1719, is the birthdate of Mozart—Leopold Mozart that is, the father of Maria Anna (Nannerl) and Wolfgang Amadeus. And from April 5, 2019 to February 9, 2020, to celebrate this tricentennial, there is going to be a special exhibition in Salzburg's rebuilt Wohnhaus (residence). e Mozart family resided in the eight-room first-floor apartment between 1773 and 1787, although Wolfgang only lived here until he le for Munich in 1780 and from there to Vienna. Leopold's Geburtshaus (birth house) in Augsburg, Germany is reopening in November 2019. Who was Leopold Mozart other than the father of his famous son? According to Dr. Gabriele Ramsauer, Director of Mozart Museums & Archive, celebratory displays will answer this question, focusing on Leopold's own profession, character, and A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing. First published in 1756, the same year as his famous son's birth, there have now been about 100 editions of this pedagogical book in multiple languages. rough the ages, it has had a significant impact on violin technique and playing. In a special documentary, violinists will be interviewed about this influence. ey will also perform. Among other objects, visitors will be able to see original portraits, manuscripts, books owned by Leopold Mozart, and playing- cards he painted himself. ey will be able to purchase a very detailed and lavishly illustrated catalogue in both German and English. In fall 2018, I was in Salzburg. Because my late brother, concert pianist Malcolm Frager, was awarded the 1987 Golden Mozart Pin for discovering some missing Mozart autographs (original manuscripts) in Kraków, Poland nine years earlier, Dr. Ulrich Leisinger, Director of the Research Department of the International Mozarteum Foundation, showed me the archival box for one of these, Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453, with which my brother made his symphony debut in St. Louis at age ten. Dr. Leisinger also explained that now, through the work of the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg (in close collaboration with e Packard Humanities Institute in Los Altos, California), all of the printed scores of Mozart have been digitized. Now everyone in the world is able to access them for free on the web: http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/ nmapub_srch.php?l=2 Later, at the Wohnhaus, I heard Dr. Leisinger play on Mozart's original Anton Walter fortepiano from the Vienna years. What a privilege! He explained that because of the mechanism in this instrument, the hammers are lighter and strike the strings quicker, which leads to a crisp, almost silvery sound; when engaged, moderator strips are placed between the hammers and the strings, producing an almost eerie sound. During Mozart Week in 1990, Malcolm recorded on this very piano in the former residence of the Prince Archbishop. In part, my brother received this honor

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