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Can you help me?  I want to get information on the Mozart "organ in
a clock" for which he composed the Fantasia, K.608.

There is a four-hand arrangement of that work for the organ that will
be played at the Kennedy Center on Friday, June 23rd.  I am one of the
two organists who will be performing this piece as part of the Mozart
Festival, with Christopher Hogwood.

Please tell me if you can help me find some information about the
instrument that this piece was originally written for.  It was entitled
"An Organ Piece for a Clock", commissioned for a mausoleum erected to
the memory of the great Field-Marshal Laudon.  Count Josef Deym (1750 -
1804), otherwise known as Muller, advertised that he had this
instrument in his art museum on the Stockameisenplatz.

This is about all that I know.  We have the music but I would like to
know more about the clock.  How many pipes were in the clock?  There
are a lot of notes in this piece so it would seem that the clock pipes
were quite sophisticated!  After all, it takes two organists, and four
hands to play all the notes!  How loud would it have been?  What did
it look like?

There is a book that shows a photo apparently but it is out of print.
It was called "The Curious History of Music Boxes" by Roy Mosoriak.
I contacted the Lightner Publishing in Chicago and they no longer have
the book.

Can you help me to get some information about this fascinating
instrument?

Thanks.

Mary Mozelle
Organist
703-368-9537

 [ I forwarded this letter also to Dr. Jan Jaap Haspels, curator of
 [ the Nationaal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands.  -- Robbie