MOZART AND THE PRACTICE OF SACRED MUSIC, 1781-91 a ...

Figure 5.19. Entry by Freystädtler in Mozart’s sketchleaf Skb 1788a. A-Wn, Mus. Hs. 17559, f. 14v (detail.)
Some time in the late 1780s, Freystädtler took instruction in counterpoint from Mozart. The
manuscripts preserving Freystädtler’s exercises are today divided between Salzburg, Berlin
and Cambridge, but seem originally to have consisted of four fascicles. Two of these are
“working manuscripts” in which Mozart would set exercises for Freystädtler, and two are
jointly-produced “fair copies” that were sometimes subject to further corrections. One page
of the first working manuscript contains exercises on a cantus firmus set by Mozart, with
second species voices above and below by Freystädtler. On the right-hand side of the page,
Freystädtler wrote a passage that is somewhat at odds with the other content; see Figure 5.20
and Example 5.1.
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