Schröter / Mozart: Harp Concertos

According to an old tradition, it is perfectly legitimate to transfer works from one instrument to another, as long as no damage is done to the substance. This is what the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart said to himself, for example, when he transformed three piano sonatas by his admired role model Johann Christian Bach into little concertos (KV 107) at a young age, and Silke Aichhorn said the same to herself when she arranged one of these pièces for the harp with concertos by the German Johann Samuel Schröter, who was almost the same age. The pairing is no coincidence: Mozart and his father appreciated the works of the man from Guben in Lusatia, who enjoyed a respectable career as a pianist and, as the successor to the "London Bach", finally instructed Her Majesty Queen Charlotte in music in 1782 - unfortunately not for too long: Schröter died three years before and at the same age as Amadeus.