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

Sinfonia Concertante by Wolfgang Amadeus 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] 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]
In 1991, Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa wrote a highly original completion, commissioned by the International Mozarteum Foundation.
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]
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 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.^[6]

References

^ 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.
^ Octava Chamber Orchestra 2007
^ Cummings 2000, p. 687.
^ https://www.staatskapelle-dresden.de/fileadmin/home/Archiv/pdf/proghefte/2017_18/Sonderkonzert_Gru__ndungstag.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

Sinfonia concertante in A für Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Orchester: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe

Concertos and other concertante works for violin by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Violin Concertos

No. 1 in B-flat major, K. 207
No. 2 in D major, K. 211
No. 3 in G major, K. 216 (Straßburg)
No. 4 in D major, K. 218
No. 5 in A major, K. 219 (Turkish)

Individual movements

Adagio in E major, K. 261
Rondo in B-flat major, K. 269/261a
Rondo in C major, K. 373

Multiple instruments

Concertone for Two Violins and Orchestra in C major, K. 190/186E
Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra in D major, K. Anh. 56/315f (fragment)
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364/320d
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra in A major, K. Anh 104/320e (fragment)

Doubtful

Violin Concerto (No. 7) in D major, K. 271a/271i (Kolb)

Spurious

Violin Concerto (No. 6) in E-flat major, K. 268/365b/Anh.C 14.04, attributed to Johann Friedrich Eck
Violin Concerto in D major, K. Anh. 294a/Anh.C 14.05 (Adélaïde), by Marius Casadesus