Basso (cello/double bass)
(2.2.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp
- str)
SKU:
BR.OB-5373-26
Hafner Music: Hafner
Symphony with March in D
major K. 408/2 (385a) -
Urtext. Composed by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Edited by Henrik Wiese.
Orchestra; stapled.
Orchester-Bibliothek
(Orchestral Library).
Symphony; Dances/marches;
Classical. Part. 12
pages. Duration 20'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #OB
5373-26. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.OB-5373-26).
ISBN
9790004341032. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart wrote his
Hafner Symphony K. 385 in
the summer of 1782 on the
occasion of the elevation
into the nobility of his
friend and patron Sigmund
Hafner. Next to the
well-known movements,
this version (A) also
contained the March K.
408/2 (385a) and possibly
a second, no longer
extant minuet. Called
Hafner=Musique by Mozart,
the work was
unquestionably a serenade
at first. In early 1783
Mozart then reduced the
Hafner Music for his
subscription concert at
the Vienna Burgtheater on
23 March 1783 to a
four-movement symphony.
This is the form in which
the work was first
printed in 1785 (Version
B). For a further
performance, Mozart added
flute and clarinet parts
to the symphony. In 1805,
this version (C) was
published by Andre in
Offenbach, who thus began
making it known.The
primary sources of the
present Breitkopf Urtext
edition are the
autographs to K. 385 and
K. 408/2 (385a). It thus
becomes possible for the
first time to play all
three versions of the
Hafner Music, since the
variants of Versions A
and B can be easily
discerned through
indications in footnotes
and notes in small
print.