Piano Trio
SKU:
BR.MR-2115A
Music
at the Court of Kromeriz
No. 49. Composed by
Pavel Joseph Vejvanowsky.
Edited by Charles W.
Smith. Chamber music;
Softcover. Musica Rara.
Sonata; Renaissance/early
Baroque; Baroque. Piano
reduction. 12 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel #MR
2115a. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.MR-2115A).
ISBN
9790004486696. 9 x 12
inches.
Sonata
Sancti Mauritii was
written in 1666 by Pavel
Josef Vejvanovsky
(1633?-1693) for the
feast day of the patron
saint of St. Mauritius
Church, Kremsier, which
is now Kromeriz, Czech.
The date of the
composition shows it to
be an early work composed
about two years after he
joined Prince Bishop Karl
Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn'
s orchestra as trumpeter,
composer and copyist.The
source for this edition
is a manuscript in the
Castle Archives,
Kromeriz, C.S.S.R., call
number Breitenbucher IV
9.This sonata contains
many features of interest
to trumpeters and is an
attractive piece in its
own right. Two noteworthy
points are 1) the use of
mutes to raise the pitch
of the trumpets from C to
D and 2) the unusual key
of g minor for the
trumpets with a difficult
move from the f-sharp to
f-natural in the first
trumpet part in measures
112-113. In the latter
case, a fermata has been
inserted editorially for
musical as well as
practical reasons.This
piano reduction was
prepared from a modern
edition of the work with
strings and continue
available also from
Musica Rara. The string
parts are preserved here
as much as possible in
the sections marked
Tutti. The sections
marked B. C. (Basso
Continuo) appear here as
realised in the
orchestral edition.(from
the Preface: Charles W.
Smith, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri, U.S.A., 9th
March 1985).
