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
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][lower-alpha 1] For unknown reasons Mozart abandoned the work after writing 134 bars of the opening movement.[2]
Structure
As completed the work consists of a single movement Allegro.
Completions
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] More recently, composer Hans Ueckert announced he was working on a completion for the Octava Chamber Orchestra.[4] Another composer to have made a completion is Philip Wilby.[5]
References
- Notes
- ↑ ...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. (Gutman, 2011)
- ↑ (Gutman 2011, p. 562)
- 1 2 3 (Pajot 2005)
- ↑ "CV of Robert Levin". Retrieved July 2013.
- ↑ (Octava Chamber Orchestra 2007)
- ↑ (Cummings 2000, p. 687)
- 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 July 2013.
- "Hans Ueckert, Composer". The Octava Chamber Orchestra. 2007. Retrieved July 2013.
External links
- Sinfonia concertante in A für Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Orchester: Score and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
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