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The Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra, K. Anh. 56/315f by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an unfinished work that was written in Mannheim in 1778. It was written for an Academie des Amateurs that was to take place in Mannheim. Mozart himself was to play the piano part and Ignaz Fränzl, the concertmaster of the Mannheim orchestra, was to play the solo violin part.
Mozart only wrote the first 120 bars of the first movement, and only the first 74 bars are completely scored. Alfred Einstein believed that the work was abandoned due to the disbanding of the Mannheim orchestra; however, that had happened earlier that year when the Elector moved to Munich and most of his orchestra followed him, so the Academie des Amateurs replaced the Mannheim orchestra. The most likely explanation for the concerto being abandoned is that Mozart left Mannheim in December 1778, perhaps because the Academie did not start as early as he thought it would. It is unknown why he did not continue working on the concerto on his journey home or when he was back in Salzburg.[1]
In 1990 the British composer Philip Wilby reconstructed and completed the work for The Complete Mozart Edition. Its premiere recording took place in 1990 with violinist Iona Brown and pianist Howard Shelley with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner, which was first issued as part of Volume 8 of The Complete Mozart Edition.
The autograph manuscript of the concerto is preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Recordings
[edit]| Conductor | Soloists | Orchestra | Label | Completion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roger Norrington | Daniel Hope, Sebastian Knauer | Camerata Salzburg | Warner Classics | Philip Wilby |
| Neville Marriner | Iona Brown, Howard Shelley | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields | Philips Classics | Philip Wilby |
| Midori Goto, Christoph Eschenbach | NDR-Sinfonieorchester | Sony Records | Philip Wilby | |
| Kaspar Zehnder | Vladyslava Luchenko, Frank Braley | Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra | Fuga Libera | Philip Wilby |
| Jürgen Kussmaul | Rainer Kussmaul, Monika Leonhard | Amsterdam Mozart Players | Channel Classics | Philip Wilby |
| Peter Ruzicka | Rainer Kussmaul, Sophie-Mayuko Vetter | Hamburger Symphoniker | Oehms Classics | Fragment |
| Yoon Kuk Lee | Eduard Okoun, Cyprien Katsaris | Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie | Piano 21 | Robert Levin compl. + fragment |
| Nicholas McGegan | Zsolt Kalló, Rita Papp | Capella Savaria | Hungaroton | Robert Levin |
| Lawrence Cummings | Bojan Čičić, Robert Levin | Academy of Ancient Music | AAM | Robert Levin |
References
[edit]- ^ K315f (Anh 56) Concerto for Violin and Piano. Article by Dennis PajotArchived 2009-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
Mozart Jahrbuch 1991 p. 912
External links
[edit]- Konzert in D für Violine, Klavier und Orchester KV Anh. 56 (315f): Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
- K315f (Anh 56) Concerto for Violin and Piano. Article by Dennis Pajot