Did Mozart plagiarize?

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061711

In-Reply-To: <a4fr7e+8f8p@...>
paulerlich wrote:

> http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061711

>From the article, "Calling Mozart a plagiarist would be going too far".
In fact, that's not how I understand it at all. When still in Salzburg,
he was asked to send a piece to be performed by some other orchestra. So
he took something by Michael Haydn, changed the first line, and put his
own name to it. Attitudes to originality really have changed over the
centuries.

Graham

--- In metatuning@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:

> http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061711

Interesting discovery--Mozart acted like an 18th century composer!

>>http://slate.msn.com/?id=2061711
>
>Interesting discovery--Mozart acted like an 18th century composer!

Um. This sort of thing happens in music all the time, to this
day.

-Carl