Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartets, Volume 2

Hoffmeister Quartet and Prussian Quartets-Over the next few years all 26 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?s String Quartets will be published by Henle in an Urtext Edition of both score and parts. All previous editions have left much to be desired for example asconcerns the correct placement of dynamic markings.Henle?s edition made with the artistic collaboration of the Armida Quartet draws upon the large body of modern knowledge concerning Mozart philology andperformance practice. We begin with what are chronologically speaking the final four quartets: the so-called ?Hoffmeister? Quartet K. 499 and the three ?Prussian? Quartets K. 575 589 and 590.It is possible that the impulse behind the composition of these last three works was the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II who was an excellent cellist. Modern cellists will find many beautiful melodies to enjoy in thesequartets.

for 2 Violins Viola Basso and 2 Horns-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's A Musical Joke is filled with intentional mistakes by the composer who inserted odd notes into this amusing and mischievous piece in order to take an angry side-swipe atdilettante composer-colleagues of his time whose lack of imagination and artless compositional technique are here mercilessly demonstrated - the piece was not intended to parody musicians who play wrong notes as its later title?Village Musicians? suggests. A musical and intellectual delight for today?s performers and audiences alike this piece is now performable for the first time using a genuine Urtext quality edition based onthe autograph in Berlin. A Musical Joke is scored for 2 Violins Viola Basso and 2 Horns in F.

arranged for Oboe and Piano-The Oboe Quartet in F major K. 370/368b was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in early 1781. The quartet originally arranged for oboe violin viola and cello is presented in this edition for Oboe with Piano accompaniment. In 1780 Mozart was invited to Munich to visit Elector Karl Theodor who had commissioned the opera Idomeneo for a carnival celebration. While in Munich Mozart renewed an acquaintance with Friedrich Ramm a virtuoso oboist in the Munich orchestra. It was for Ramm that Mozart composed the quartet in order to show off his virtuosity and the improvements that had been made to the oboe at that time. One way that this piece showed off theinstrument was the use of the 'high F' above the staff a note rarely played in any repertoire previously written for the oboe. This piece is a work of chamber music but it has elements that harken to other musical genres and requires a fair amount of virtuosity. Because of its large amount of virtuosic playing on the part of the oboe and the large degree to which the strings simply accompany the oboist it almost resembles a concerto but with only with four players instead of an entire orchestra. Despite this there are also a number of places within the work that require ensemble playing for example the famous 13-bar passage in the finale in which the oboe plays in common time against a 6/8 accompaniment.

About Complete Church Sonatas. Volume 1Nine Sonatas for two Violins Organ and Violoncello/Bass. By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Minos E. Dounias. For Organ Violin 1 Violin 2 Violoncello/Contrabass. Playing Score; Set of Parts; Urtext Edition. Published by Baerenreiter-Ausgaben (German import). (BA4731) ISBN M006454488. Contents:KV 67 (41h) Es-dur /2`KV 68 (41i) /4`KV 69 (41k) /3`KV 144 (124a) D-dur /4`KV 145 (124b) F-dur /3`KV 212 B-dur /4`KV 224 (241a) F-dur /5`KV 225 (241b) A-dur /5`KV 241 G-dur /3`

About Concerto Movement for Horn and OrchestraBy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Dominic Nunns. For Horn Solo Oboe (2) Horn (2) Strings. Piano Reduction/Vocal Score. KV 494a. Duration 4'30''. Published by Baerenreiter-Ausgaben (German import). (BA5349 90)

Bien des connaisseurs et amateurs comptent le Trio en Mi b?mol majeur K. 563 de Mozart comme ?tant l?une de ses compositions les plus extraordinaires. Cette ?uvre magistrale qualifi?e de ?Divertimento? dans le catalogue d??uvres autographe de Mozart confronte l??diteur Urtext ? de grands d?fis. L?autographe est en effet perdu depuis toujours et l?on ne poss?de aucune autre source de premier plan. La source la plus fiable quoiqu?? l??vidence impr?cise est la premi?re ?dition parue deux mois apr?s la mort de Mozart. De nombreuses ?ditions du XXe si?cle ont malheureusement reproduit le texte musical de ?l?ancienne ?dition int?grale? de Breitkopf & H?rtel due au grand violonisteJoseph Joachim mais reposant sur des mod?les fautifs et qui de ce fait est totalement corrompue. De m?me la ?Nouvelle ?dition Mozart? n?est pas d?pourvue de fautes. L??dition Henle suit pour l?essentiel la premi?re ?dition non sans avoir recours ? de nombreuses interventions rectificatrices qui sont comment?es dans l?apparat critique. En appendice ? l??dition on trouvera le mouvement pour trio ? cordes en Sol majeur K. Anh. 66 (562e) parvenu seulement de mani?re fragmentaire. Quel malheur que Mozart n?ait pas achev? cette tout aussi merveilleuse page ? elle va toutefois un peu au-del? de l?exposition et convient ainsi parfaitement ? un petit bis. Gr?ce ? une mise en page soign?e comme par exemple divers d?pliants et des pages blanches les trois parties s?par?es offrent une parfaite fluidit? de lecture et de jeu. L??dition de travail disponible s?par?ment (HN 9625) propose la partition correspondant ? ces parties s?par?es.

Henle Urtext Study Score edition of Mozart's String Trio E Flat KV 563 edited by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert. For Violin Viola and Cello.