I didn't know Francois Joseph  Gossec until I found his "Gavotte in D".
To me, it seems like a typical salon piece of its era: not terribly demanding
from performer or listener, possibly an actual dance.

There is a connection between Gossec and Mozart, though. Gossec taught
composition to Joseph Boulogne, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and dedicated
his Six Trios, Op.9 to him. Saint-Georges later was also called the
"Le Mozart Noir". On his journey to Paris in 1778, Mozart himself however
refused to play for the "L'orchestre des amateurs" of which Saint-George
was the director.

The ending notes of the four repeats of the two-bar theme (bars 2, 4, 6, 8)
are written as "ten." in the score; I didn't score that. I did, however,
score all pedal marks.

A very useful feature of MOZART is that it allows repeats to be omitted in
a DC section, which is used here. That way, I could recreate printed music
in 32 bars instead of 48, on one page instead of two.

Brisbane, April 2003 <mb@tgm.com.au> http://mcmbednarek.tripod.com/

April 2004: Added some details about Gossec/Saint-Georges/W.A. Mozart