Concerto for oboe and orchestra in C major, K. 314

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The Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C major KV 314 was probably written around 1777 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for the oboist Giuseppe Ferlendis , and in 1778 the composer reworked it into a concerto for flute and orchestra in D major. The concerto is played a lot all over the world and, since it is also required as a standard work for auditions, it is one of the most important concerts for oboe .

The piece

Like the Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 1, the piece was written for the standard line-up of the time: strings, two oboes and two horns.

The piece consists of three movements:

  1. Movement: Allegro aperto
  2. Movement: Adagio non troppo
  3. Movement: Rondo : Allegretto

The orchestration is light and transparent, which makes the soloist stand out and gives greater expression to the rhythmic figures, especially when the orchestra introduces the soloist for the first time. The second movement is of a very elegiac character in which the oboe can make very good use of its soft, melodious tone. In the second movement of the concerto, Mozart moves in the tone of a high-quality aria from the opera Seria-Manner. The exuberant third movement, the rondo, which in places reminds of Haydn, is in alla breve time , with a jumping and jagged theme, the clear relationship to the blonde's aria "What delight, what lust" from Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( KV 384). Mozart had his father send him the material for the oboe concerto for the composition of this aria. Particularly noteworthy is the central part of the movement, in which a theme based on a throw-in motif is processed into a three-part counterpoint; one of Mozart's most brilliant ideas.

The Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major

The Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 2 in D major is only an arrangement of the oboe concerto. The Dutch amateur flautist Ferdinand de Jean commissioned Mozart to write four flute quartets and three flute concertos, of which Mozart only wrote three quartets and one new concert. Mozart did not care about this instrument, but wrote to earn money for an amateur musician, with whom the instrument was already very popular back then. Instead of writing another new concerto, he reworked the oboe concerto into Flute Concerto No. 2, transposed it to D major and made some minor changes to match the character of the flute. De Jean paid Mozart only part of the originally agreed fee for the work, since the second concert was based on the oboe concerto.

origin

In his book, published in 1945, Alfred Einstein suspected Mozart: his character, his work because of references in Mozart letters to an existing oboe concerto and hints in the orchestration of the second flute concerto that suggested an adaptation that the flute concerto No. 2 was only an adaptation of the Oboe concerto, which at that time was still considered lost. Bernhard Paumgartner did not publish until 1950 that he had already found the set of parts for the oboe concerto KV 314 at the Mozarteum Salzburg in 1920, which finally led to the certainty that it was actually an oboe concerto.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314 (K. 285d) from Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Riordan, George. The History of the Mozart Concerto K. 314 . International Double Reed Society & University of Colorado , College of Music. Online ( Memento of February 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314 (K. 285d) at Allmusic (English)
  4. ↑ Freed, Richard. Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. October 5-7, 2006 ( Memento of March 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )