Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra (Mozart)
The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra in A major, K. Anh. 104 (320e), is an incomplete composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Background
[edit]Mozart is believed to have started work on this concerto around the same time as the Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major K. 364.[1] For unknown reasons Mozart abandoned the work after writing 134 bars of the opening movement.[2]
Structure
[edit]As completed the work consists of a single movement, Allegro.
Completions
[edit]Several composers have completed the movement.
- Around 1870, Otto Bach composed a completion which Dennis Pajot described as having a very obvious join between the part written by Mozart and the part written by Bach.[2]
- In 1969, Robert D. Levin wrote a completion that was more sympathetic to the surviving material.[2][3]
- In 1991, Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa wrote a highly original completion, commissioned by the International Mozarteum Foundation.[4]
- More recently, composer Hans Ueckert announced he was working on a completion for the Octava Chamber Orchestra.[5]
- Another composer to have made a completion is Philip Wilby.[6]
- Another completion was made by Italian composer Alessandro Solbiati for I Solisti Aquilani and played first time in Rotterdam during International Viola Congress 2018 (soloists: Daniele Orlando, violin – Gianluca Saggini, viola – Giulio Ferretti, cello).[citation needed]
- The contemporary Filipino-British composer Jeffrey Ching's three-movement completion, published by Verlag Neue Musik with Ching's original cadenzas, was premiered by the Dresden Staatskapelle under Michail Jurowski in 2017.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Gutman 2011, p. 562 "...he started work on a triple concerto or sinfonia concertante for violin, viola, and violoncello (K. Anh. 104/320e), whose surviving fragment, like that of the Mannheim double concerto, augurs greatness.
- ^ a b c Pajot 2005
- ^ "CV of Robert Levin". Archived from the original on 2013-05-20. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- ^ "年譜｜作曲家・三枝成彰公式ウェブサイト" (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ Octava Chamber Orchestra 2007
- ^ Cummings 2000, p. 687.
- ^ https://www.staatskapelle-dresden.de/fileadmin/home/Archiv/pdf/proghefte/2017_18/Sonderkonzert_Gru__ndungstag.pdf [bare URL PDF]
Sources
- Cummings, David M., ed. (2000). International Who's Who in Music and Musician's Directory 2000/2001: (In the Classical and Light Classical Fields). Routledge. ISBN 0948875534.
- Gutman, Robert (31 August 2011). Mozart. Random House. p. 562. ISBN 978-1-4464-7707-6. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- Pajot, Dennis (2005). "K320e The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello". MozartForum.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- "Hans Ueckert, Composer". Octava Chamber Orchestra. 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
External links
[edit]- Sinfonia concertante in A für Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Orchester: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
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