Der Spiegel (The Mirror) Duet

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Der Spiegel (The Mirror) Duet played by Helen Swansbourne and Richard Croad. This duo was undertaken as an on-line collaboration during the Covid-19 lockdown period (we live in different countries).

Der Spiegel for two guitars is transcribed and published by the Classical Guitar Corner Academy (https://cgcpublishing.com). The piece is written as a palindrome (also called table music or retrograde inversion canon). Each player reads from the same sheet of music but are playing the piece in reverse order from each other, one from the top to bottom, the other from bottom to top.

Der Spiegel was originally one of four violin duets (No. 4: Allegro) under the title ‘Vier Spiegelkanons’. The work is assigned Köchel catalogue number K6 Anh. C10.16 (previously K3 Anh. 284dd) but is considered doubtful or misattributed to Mozart. Some scholars believe it may have been composed by violinist Niccolò Mestrino (1748–1789), a colleague of Joseph Haydon, who worked in the court of the Nikolaus II, Prince of Esterházy.

According to Dennis Pajot [1] and other sources, the four mirror canons were edited by Fritz Jöde and published in 1928 by Georg Kallmeyer Verlag (now Musicverlag Möseler) based on one known lithographic print in Nurnburg, without publisher details, carrying the title ‘Four Playful Duets [Scherzduette] by W.A. Mozart for two Violins’. Another print has since been found titled ‘Three duo favourites for two violins...’, printed by Edouord Guillaume Mayer in Rothenbourg. Although this print has no publisher number, it probably dates before 1850.

In the Hoboken (Haydon’s) catalogue, there is a violin duo called ‘Ein Musikalischer Schertz’ listed under spurious works (Group VI: G4). A commentary about the piece says there is a similar ‘musical joke’ at the Sandor Wolf Library in Eisenstadt with the title ‘Duo facile et Curieux pour deux Violons par Mr. Mestrino (Mestrino's plain and strange duo for two violins)’. The incipit given for this 29-measure mirror canon is identical to that for K Anh. C10.16 (No. 4).

[1] http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/contest_241_results.html.

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