2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons (Clarinets (2), Horns (2), Bassoons (2)) - Leve...(+)
2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2
bassoons (Clarinets (2),
Horns (2), Bassoons (2))
- Level 4
SKU:
BA.BA05334
Sextet
Version (1781).
Composed by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart. Edited by
Daniel N. Leeson and Neal
Zaslaw. This edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Barenreiter Urtext. Set
of parts. K. 375.
Duration 24 minutes.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA05334_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA05334).
ISBN
9790006502677. 30 x 23.2
cm inches. Key: E-flat
major.
The Serenade
in E-flat, K.375, exists
in two versions, one for
two clarinets, two horns
and two bassoons, and
another for the same
forces plus two oboes,
forming an
octet.
From Mozart
himself we know a fair
amount about the occasion
that led to the first,
six-instrument version of
this work and about its
early performances.
Written for the
sister-in-law of the
court painter Hickl, it
probably originated
toward the end of
September or the
beginning of October in
1781 and was first
performed on 15 October,
the name-day of St.
Theresa.
The octet
version probably arose in
the summer of the
following year. It is far
more than a mechanical
expansion of the sextet
with the oboes merely
reinforcing the clarinets
colla parte. Not only did
Mozart take advantage of
the occasion to make
changes in the
articulation and the
dynamics, he also altered
the work’s melodic
substance and formal
design. The two
additional high-register
instruments allowed him
to achieve more subtle
distinctions and
gradations of timbre,
thereby enabling him, for
example, to vary the
timbral homogeneity of
the two clarinets. The
opportunity arose to
divide melodic phrases
among the clarinets and
oboes or to make them
more brilliant and
incisive by doubling them
at the unison or
octave.
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