Unlikely that Mozart would have used a page turner (or a score, for that 
matter).

S


On 02/19/2016 09:24 AM, J. Claudio Di Veroli wrote:
>> Dennis wrote: The Met says about the first of
> these: Mozart's D-minor piano concerto, K. 466, requires the use of a pedal
> mechanism as it cannot be performed with the range of the manual alone.
> Does anyone know what passages this refers to precisely? How do modern
> pianists handle them? Thanks.
>
> I quote from the Eulenburg editions preface by Paul Badura Skoda, p. IV:
>
> "An important passage in the first movement ... bb88-99 are not playable on
> one piano alone without a very disturbing break in the phrasing. These low
> bass notes which appear in the autograph, but curiously in none of the
> editions, can simply be explained by the fact that Mozart disposed of a
> pedal piano at the concerts he played early in 1785."
>
> IMHO there is an error: it means bb88-90 (not 99), where there are three low
> D's and two low AA's that are unplayable without a pedal, as the left hand
> is playing chords in the middle of the keyboard. Modern recordings usually
> omit these low-and-slow notes which, quite obviously, can be played by
> anybody helping with page turning.
>
> CDV
>
> http://harps.braybaroque.ie/
>
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