SKU: BR.EB-10702

In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag

ISBN 9790201807027. 9.5 x 12.5 inches.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concertos: the Mozart expert Henrik Wiese edits the central work genre of Viennese classicism according to the current status of international Mozart research. Mozart wrote the Horn Concerto K. 417 - like the other works of this genre as well - for his horn-playing friend Joseph Leutgeb. The jokes which the composer made at Leutgeb's expense are wellknown. For example, he called the dedicatee a donkey in the autograph, and, as Henrik Wiese evidences in his preface, Mozart also occasionally enjoyed a bit of tomfoolery with the soloist in the musical text as well.Otherwise the editor's task was anything but amusing. The main source - the autograph score - is incomplete: missing are the close of Movement I as well as the entire slow middle movement. For these two sections, Wiese used a copy of the score from the archive of the publisher Johann Andre. The unusual circumstance that Mozart generally left the horn part almost unmarked recurs in the Concerto K. 417 and was deliberately maintained in the Urtext edition.

with parts for horn in F and Eb major.

SKU: HF.FH-2995

ISBN 9790203429951. 9 x 12 inches.

1. Leise rieselt der Schnee (Ed. Ebel); 2. Ach, bittrer Winter (17. Jhd.); 3. Nikolauslied (Rheinland); 4. Morgen, Kinder, wird's was geben (Berliner Volksweise, 1800); 5. Ihr Kinderlein, kommet (J.A.P. Schulz, 1747-1800); 6. Alle Jahre wieder (F. Silcher, 1789-1860); 7. Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her (M. Luther); 8. Frohlich soll mein Herze springen (J. Cruger, 1598-1662); 9. Uns ist geboren (Altflamisch); 10. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Speiersches Gesangsbuch, 1599); 11. O du frohliche (sizilianische Volksweise); 12. Nun singet und seid froh (Klug's Gesangbuch, 1535); 13. Vom Himmel hoch ihr Englein (Kolner Gesangbuch, 1632); 14. Kommet, iht Hirten (Volksweise); 15. Auf, auf, ihr Hirten (Niederosterreich); 16. Spielt auf (Volksweise); 17. Lieb' Nachtigall, wach auf (1670); 18. Kindlein mein (Volkslied); 19. Kindlein zart (Volksweise); 20. Joseph, lieber Joseph mein (nach Handschrift 1305 der Universitats-Bibliothek Leipzig); 21. Still, still, weil's Kindlein schlafen will (Volkslied aus Salzburg, 1819); 22. O Tannebaum (Alte Volksweise); 23. O Tannebaum (Volkslied aus Westfalen); 24. Ach Tannenbaum (M. Franck, 1573-1639); 25. Am Weihnachtsbaum die Lichter brennen (Volksweise); 26. Frohliche Weihnacht uberall (aus dem Englischen); 27. Stille Nacht (F. Gruber, 1787-1863).

SKU: BR.EB-10704

In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag

ISBN 9790201807041. 9.5 x 12 inches.

Prank or Color Code? Mozart composed all of his horn concertos for Joseph Leutgeb, a long-standing friend of his family. In Salzburg Leutgeb was in the service of the court ensemble as horn player and violinist before departing for Vienna, where he became known as a performer of Mozart's horn concertos. In 1786 Mozart wrote his fourth horn concerto in E flat major, which, unfortunately, survives only as an incomplete fragment. For the present new edition in Breitkopf Urtext, a reliable early print for the missing sections is used. Nevertheless, this autograph is still a very valuable source, since it contains Mozart's notation of the work in colored ink! The question as to whether this was one of Mozart's typical jokes aimed at Leutgeb or whether he had something else in mind, remains inconclusive to this day. Whoever is curious can take a guess as well, since Breitkopf is printing (in its new edition and in autograph form) the sections in color that were originally transmitted as such.

In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag.