Deep Dive Music Trivia - Viennese Vogue

Mozart toured Europe as a child prodigy, and discovered the clarinet as a new instrument. There were no clarinets in his hometown. Which city was that?

When Mozart moved to Vienna at age 25, he made friends with a rising virtuoso clarinet player called:

Mozart and others loved the smooth, dulcet tone of the newly invented clarinet. One admirer noted that Anton Stadler made the instrument sound like:

Mozart wrote his most famous clarinet works for Stadler, including:

Actually, the Quintet and Concerto were originally written for a special kind of clarinet, known as the:

What made the basset clarinet special?

The basset clarinet was only possible because of the skill of master clarinet maker Theodor Lotz. Lotz, Stadler and Mozart were good friends and also:

The basset clarinet fell out of popularity, partly because Stadler somehow lost his instrument. He also lost Mozart's Quintet manuscript, claiming:

In 1991, modern instrument makers were finally able to reconstruct the basset clarinet after a concert program containing an illustration by Stadler was discovered in:

Nicole van Bruggen, ARCO's co-artistic director and principal clarinettist, has one of only two basset clarinets in Australia. On ARCO's 2023 Viennese Vogue tour she played it in Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, touring: