Paris concert hall: Not applauding between movements is historically absurd

Paris concert hall: Not applauding between movements is historically absurd

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norman lebrecht

March 13, 2016

The Finnish music blogger Janne Koskinen has spotted an interesting innovation at the Centre de Musique de chambre de Paris. A notice in the programme states:

applaud when you like

 

 

Applaud when you like

The 20th century fashion of not applauding between movements is historically absurd. Mozart never imposed silence.

audience applause

 

Janne tells us that, on Friday night, there was applause between every movement of Mozart’s Clarinet  Quintet and Schumann’s Piano Trio No 1.

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