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Also one time he was supposed to write a violin and piano duet, and he wrote the violin part, but he didn’t really feel like writing the piano part, or was too lazy etc. When the concert came up (he played the piano while a fiend played the violin) he set up a blank piece of paper (so people would think he was reading music) and improvised. After the concert he wrote it down so it could be published

okay i’ve reblogged this before but can we just give a shoutout to the orchestra that had to sightread the overture to an audience at the premiere of an opera

^ THAT’S WHAT I WAS THINKING JFC

And let’s not forget Wolfie wrote Don Giovanni’s overture WHILE HAVING A HANGOVER!

Also, Beethoven did a similar thing at the premiere of his 3rd piano concerto at his musical academy of April the 5th 1803. He hadn’t have time to write the solo part and so, at the fantasy section of the 1st movement, he asked the conductor to turn the blank pages of the score whenever he’d wink at him. Seyfried, the conductor, reported that all he saw were illegible hieroglyphics of something remotely close to arpeggios only meant to serve as cue for Beethoven at the piano.

Later he did write it properly in order to publish it.