On the Performance of the Music of Mozart

Dr. Whitwell has given workshops on Mozart performance practice at the Royal College of Music in London, the Conservatory of Music in Milano, in addition to clinics in Korea, Taiwan, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Belgium and Spain. He has given a public address on Mozart's K. 375 at the University of Wisconsin and public lectures in Boston and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was the master teacher for a Chamber Music Festival in Santa Fe dedicated to the performance of Mozart's music. David Whitwell has authored articles on Mozart manuscripts in leading journals, including , the and the , which concerned the date of K. 361 and which was honored by its inclusion in the a 1985 collection of the most outstanding articles of musicology. Whitwell's work on the ''Gran Partita,'' K. 361, is acknowledged in the preface of the Library of Congress' publication of the facsimile of the autograph score (1976). He is credited with having discovered the proof that this partita has always been one single work and not two separate works, as suspected by many earlier scholars, and for discovering the measure to be omitted before the coda of the ''Romance'' movement. This book discusses the basic idioms of central European performance in the music of the late Baroque through early Beethoven, which Dr. Whitwell considers fundamental to proper stylistic performance of Mozart's music.