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.
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