{"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, ‘Kegelstatt’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t