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Mozart’s Clarinet

21 March 2020

9:00 AM

21 March 2020

9:00 AM

A couple of friends have nominated it as music they would like played at their funerals. I’m not into programming my own funeral, even if the current plague means it may be closer. But I do understand the attraction of the Adagio movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto (K. 622). It is achingly beautiful and does have a valedictory air about it; not surprisingly, since Mozart, already ill, died two months later.

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