The over-arching theme for our Winter Concert is borrowing. Composers have long used themes from folk music or from other composers to develop their works, as well as taking inspiration from theater. In addition to thematic borrowing, sometimes composers “borrow” works through orchestration, as Ravel did with many works of Debussy’s, or even – in the case of the Sinfonia concertante, perhaps just borrowed the composer’s name. This work may or may not be by Mozart at all – the solo parts most likely are Mozart’s labors, but the piece as a whole may have been produced by somebody else entirely, who simply “borrowed” Mozart’s solo work and extrapolated the orchestra parts from that.

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