Horn and piano (solo: hn - 0.2.0.2. - 0.0.0.0. - str) SKU: BR.EB-8698 ...(+)
Horn and piano (solo: hn
- 0.2.0.2. - 0.0.0.0. -
str)
SKU:
BR.EB-8698
Original Version and
Revised Version by Mozart
completed by Robert D.
Levin - Urtext.
Composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. Edited by
Robert D. Levin. Arranged
by Christian Rudolf
Riedel. Solo instruments;
stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. Solo concerto;
Classical. Piano
reduction. 56 pages.
Duration 12'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 8698.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-8698).
ISBN 9790004184813. 9
x 12 inches.
The
two-movement,
incompletely transmitted
Horn Concerto in D major
K. 412 was long
considered as Mozarts
first horn concerto; it
is, however, his last,
and was written between
March and December 1791.
Mozart undertook
revisions in the
autograph which contains
the most important
orchestral parts next to
the entire solo horn part
in order to adjust the
work to the modest
technical abilities of
the planned soloist
Joseph Leutgeb. Mozart
revised and completed the
first movement,
eliminated lower notes in
the solo part, rewrote
difficult passages and
expanded orchestral
interludes to give
Leutgeb additional breath
rests. Mozart also made
similar simplifications
in the second movement as
well, but his early death
prevented the completion
of the work. Robert D.
Levin reconstructed both
versions of the concerto
on the basis of the
autograph. Next to the
version revised by Mozart
(post correcturam), he
now presents the original
version (ante
correcturam) for the
first time in a musical
text revised and
supplemented according to
rigorous philological
criteria.
Horn and piano (solo: hn - 0.2.0.0 - 2.0.0.0 - str) SKU: BR.EB-10702 U...(+)
Horn and piano (solo: hn
- 0.2.0.0 - 2.0.0.0 -
str)
SKU:
BR.EB-10702
Urtext. Composed
by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart. Edited by Henrik
Wiese. Arranged by Jan
Philip Schulze. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf.
In
Cooperation with G. Henle
Verlag
Solo concerto;
Classical. Piano
reduction. 40 pages.
Duration 15'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 10702.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.EB-10702).
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.