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Among the many historical treasures housed – and, in recent years, posted – by the Library of Congress is the manuscript of Mozart’s Gran Partita Serenade for twelve wind instruments and bass. These are a few of my favorite pages from that document; I highly recommend a tour of the entire thing.

If you are in Iowa come hear the Gran Partita tonight at King Chapel on the campus of Cornell College [I am playing basset horn]. For those of you unable to make it check out this live recording of the astonishing theme and variation movement from a WCFSO performance I led a few years ago.