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Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra (Mozart)

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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

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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

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As completed the work consists of a single movement, Allegro.

Completions

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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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c Pajot 2005
  3. ^ "CV of Robert Levin". Archived from the original on 2013-05-20. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
  4. ^ "年譜|作曲家・三枝成彰公式ウェブサイト" (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  5. ^ Octava Chamber Orchestra 2007
  6. ^ Cummings 2000, p. 687.
  7. ^ https://www.staatskapelle-dresden.de/fileadmin/home/Archiv/pdf/proghefte/2017_18/Sonderkonzert_Gru__ndungstag.pdf [bare URL PDF]

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