Andante in C, K315 for flute and piano

[FltnPicc_David]

Okay, so I'm auditioning for the Florida Flute Fair Senior Flute Choir this year! Well, we have to play Mozart's Andante in C, K315 for flute and piano and I will be getting it very soon.

So I just realized that this James Galway CD I bought last year but never really got into listening to it has his playing the piece on it! Exept he's playing with an orchestra. Anyways, I was reading the booklet that comes with the CD and it says that Mozart disliked the flute as a solo instrument. Wow...but he wrote such a beautiful piece for it...

[fluteguy18]

I know! I guess he just heard the music in his head, and couldn't change what instrument it was. The music was already formed, and he just had to write it down.

I know there is a boy (I think he is 12) who is a prodigy composer who studies at Julliard (he was featured on 60 seconds/minutes or whatever that news show is), and he does the same thing. Hears the music in his head first, and then writes it down, regardless of whether he likes the instrumentation of not.

Although what is so amazing about him is, is that when he gets bored playing his piano, he will take the music (beethoven for example) and flip it upside down, then play it backwards. I wish I was that talented. But he has problems. he used to only hear one song in his head at a time, but now he hears three or four songs at once, and there are more and more all the time........ a padded room and a straight jacket is in his future......... so sad. such talent going to madness.

[flutepicc06]

The whole "Mozart hated the flute" thing is quite debatable. He wrote a letter in which he expressed his displeasure with the instrument, but the fact that he never received full payment for some of his work commissioned by a flutist, the poor intonation for which the instrument was famous at the time, and the fact that this quote is believed by some to reference the player that shorted (rather than the instrument itself) him makes the whole idea somewhat questionable. He also had a bit of a sense of humor, and what he wrote may not necessarily be what he meant. For someone who supposedly didn't like the flute, he sure included it in a lot of beautiful music.

[angiepea]

Mozart did like the flute, it was flute players he didn't care for. The flutist that commissioned Mozart to write the concertos was a bad/late payer. I also read somewhere that Mozart composed the flute concertos to be particularly difficult so that the flutist wouldn't ask him to write another !!!

[tothepointe]

But he has problems. he used to only hear one song in his head at a time, but now he hears three or four songs at once, and there are more and more all the time........ a padded room and a straight jacket is in his future......... so sad. such talent going to madness.

Not neccessarily so. I myself have a "mental illness" (bipolar) and nowadays with the right meds and therapy the spiral into madness is not guarantee. Oh and they dont use straight jackets much anymore in case of liability and in the hospitals (mental) I've stayed the seclusion room is not padded (I never had to be in it though) So with a good dr he should live a full life if he chooses to ( some people that hear voices etc like it and aren't med complaint)

[fluteguy18]

Well, the padded room and straight jacket thing wasnt being completely serious. I was just using it as an expression to show that he was going to have mental problems. But it seemed in the interview that he was sort of agravated that he couldn't write all of the music down, thus the implying that he might go crazy in the future. He probably will live a full life, but with his situation, it will be difficult.

Sorry I wasn't clear, but my comment would have made more sense if you had watched the program.

[tothepointe]

I didn't take your comments seriously. I was merely offering the hopeful side of the story. I think I did see it on 60 minutes. It goes to show that we are wired differenty and it gives us all challeges and gifts

Oh and I was disappointed about the no straight jacket and padded part you when I first found out.

Best part about having a disorder is you get to have alot of fun joking about being nuts

[fluteguy18]

I know!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't been diagnosed, but I am sure I am OCD..... My room must be Perfect, I count the reflectors on the highway as we drive by (there are 311 between my childhood home and my high school), and all sorts of stuff like that....... My books must be pushed against the back of the book case, and if one isn't pushed back, I push on every book in my room (over 250). I listen to the same song over and over for hours and hours on end (I went on a 4 hour drive, and only listened to two songs....) , when I was little, if my shoes werent tied absolutely perfectly, I would throw a fit......

Yeah, I gotta be OCD, everyone says it.... my teachers, friends, parents......

[yeomusician]

not to spoil the insanity track but in terms of the initial post, I heard/read that Mozart was commisioned by an amateur flutist to write 2 concertos and after Mozart wrote the G major concerto, the flutist told Mozart that he thought the 2nd movement was too hard so he wrote the Andante to prove that he could write easier music and then in retaliation for the second concerto he just re-worked an already written oboe concerto

[tothepointe]

I remember having a small agument with an oboe-ist friend of mine over that concerto. She insisted it was the oboe while I insisted it was for flute.

The Adante in C is a wonderful piece to work on not too hard but enough fun bits to keep you going. I actually drug it out and played it this morning.

Fluteguy18-sounds like classic ocd

[sherbert789]

The Mozart D Concerto was an oboe concerto...Mozart wrote it in G for the oboe...and then just re-worked it for flute in D.