{"id":518,"date":"2014-10-06T04:58:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=518"},"modified":"2020-03-07T04:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T11:20:06","slug":"mozart-wolfgang-amadeus-k-498-trio-for-clarinet-viola-and-piano-in-e-flat-kegelstatt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=518","title":{"rendered":"Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: K. 498, Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano in E-flat, &#8216;Kegelstatt&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 15\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\u2019s \u201cKegelstatt\u201d trio belongs to two peculiar genres: 1) works for clarinet, viola, and piano \u2014 a small genre which was inaugurated by this piece; and 2) works which acquire a memorable nickname for no good reason. A kegelstatt is a bowling alley, or a place where people play skittles; this piece has nothing to do with skittles, or bowling, or the Big Lebowski, for that matter. It\u2019s just a piece which Mozart wrote for his piano student Franziska Jacquin and his friend the clarinetist Anton Stadler. Mozart liked to play the viola, and that made a trio. The clarinet was a fairly new concert instrument at this time, and Mozart wrote several pieces for Stadler to play on clarinet and\/or basset horn: a concerto, a quintet, some fantastic arias in late operas, and a set of twelve duos (which he did allegedly write while playing skittles). These pieces helped establish the instrument for centuries to come. That said, the \u201ckegelstatt\u201d trio is not a particularly important piece \u2014 it is merely a beautiful one, written for friends in the friendly key of E-flat, for enjoyment at home, or at the bowling alley, or wherever one happens to want to play it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\u2019s \u201cKegelstatt\u201d trio belongs to two peculiar genres: 1) works for clarinet, viola, and piano \u2014 a small genre which was inaugurated by this piece; and 2) works which acquire a memorable nickname for no good reason. A kegelstatt is a bowling alley, or a place where people play skittles; this piece has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions\/1168"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}