Finishing Mozart - two centuries later
Mozart expert Timothy Jones, who teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, has released an album of his completions of several fragments for violin and keyboard that Mozart never finished, the New York Times reports. Posthumous completions are not unheard of in the classical world. This new Mozart-Jones recording is unusual, though, in its choose-your-own-adventure approach. Jones, testing different aspects of Mozartian style, made multiple completions of each fragment, and the album includes some of that variety, leaving the listener to choose the version they like the most.