27/07 - Festival "Valloire baroque" - Un salon musical à Paris à l’époque de Mozart

If the first stay of the very young Mozart in Paris was a triumph, the second, at the age of twenty-two, was catastrophic: Mozart aroused at best only a polite interest, and his mother died there. However, Mozart took the opportunity to listen to the French musical production, and some of his works bear the mark.
It was in Paris that he put into final form his Opus Premier of six sonatas for fortepiano with violin accompaniment, which marks the birth of the duet for violin and piano(forte).
It is not certain that he met Jean-François Tapray, who produced some of the first interesting works of the French fortepiano, often with violin accompaniment. And he could not have met Hyacinthe Jadin, the most Mozartian of French fortepiano composers, who died at the age of twenty-four, after great success at the Concert Spirituel. But he was certainly aware of the works of composers of the Strasbourg school of fortepiano, the most brilliant in Paris around 1780, with notably Jean-Frédéric Edelmann.