Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola in E flat major
The Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K. 364 (320 d) composed Mozart in Salzburg in the summer or early autumn 1779. The first printed edition appeared in 1802 in the publishing house Johann André in Offenbach am Main .
To the music
Sentence names
- 1. Allegro maestoso (4/4)
- 2. Andante (3/4)
- 3. Presto (2/4)
occupation
- 2 soloists (violin and viola)
- 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings (violins, violas, violoncello, contrabasso)
A specialty of the viola is the scordature , i. H. the retuning of the strings that should be tuned a semitone higher. The cadences in the first and second movements are notated by Mozart . Performance time approx. 32 minutes.
Reception in music, film and literature
In 1808 an anonymous arrangement for string sextet was published under the title Grande sestetto concertante for string sextet in the Vienna Stamperia Chimica , which has since been edited by Christopher Hogwood and republished by Bärenreiter.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, Mozart's Sinfonia was one of those works that were known only to a few specialists, until Lionel Tertis added the piece to his program in his efforts to create a suitable place for the viola as a solo instrument. In 1924 he played the piece together with Fritz Kreisler and later with other soloists, including Adolf Busch , Szymon Goldberg , Eugène Ysaÿe , and William Primrose , before he switched from violin to viola and especially with the Belgian violinist Albert Sammons (1886–1957) .
The Sinfonia concertante now has a barely manageable number of CD recordings and downloads . In 2016, British musicologist Richard Wigmore published an extensive list of recordings with detailed comments in the specialist magazine Grammophone .
More or less long passages from the Sinfonia have been used as film music.
- In Visconti's penultimate film Violence and Passion , the symphonia by Josef Suk , violin and Josef Kodousek, viola is played together with the Prague Chamber Orchestra.
- Michael Nyman composed the soundtrack of Peter Greenaway's film Conspiracy of Women based on the slow movement. Soloists were Alexander Bălănescu (violin) and Jonathan Carney (viola). The protagonists in Greenaway's film are three women across three generations, each of whom kills their husbands. The first bars of the Andante sound after every successful murder. The complete sentence accompanies the final sequence of the film. Greenaway had already used an idiosyncratic adaptation of the second movement by Michael Nyman in his first feature film, The Falls .
- The second movement is also played in Out of Africa by Sydney Pollack of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner .
- In Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film Uzak - Weit , in which the soundtrack consists almost exclusively of natural sounds, recurring quotations from the sinfonia underline the protagonist's melancholy mood.
- The first movement of the Sinfonia is played at the beginning of Miloš Forman's film Amadeus . Performers are also the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner and Csaba Erdélyi and Levon Chilingirian as soloists.
- In 1968 Michel Legrand composed the pop song The Windmills of Your Mind on a text by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The opening melody comes from the Andante movement of the Sinfonia . The song with the English lyrics for the 1968 film Thomas Crown is unbelievable , sung by Noel Harrison , won an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1969 and became an international hit. In the remake of the film, the song is sung by Sting .
William Styron mentions the Sinfonia in his novel Sophie's Decision : Sophie, listening to Mozart's Sinfonia concertante on the radio, remembers her childhood in Krakow and decides to buy a record player, the beginning of overcoming her depression.
score
- Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for violin, viola and orchestra : score and critical report in the New Mozart Edition
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grande sestetto concertante for String Sextett based on the Sinfonia concertante KV 364. By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , accessed on July 30, 2018
- ↑ Lionel Tertis, Famous Viola Player, pioneer soloist , accessed July 30, 2018
- ^ Richard Wigmore: The best recording of Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola. In: Grammophone, January 25, 2016, accessed July 25, 2018
- ↑ Michael Nyman Drowning by Numbers for Chamber Orchestra (1998) , accessed July 9, 2018
- ↑ Soundtrack on IMDb
- ^ Hans Emons: Film, Music, Modernism. To the story of a changeable relationship. Berlin: Frank & Timme 2014. pp. 200–201
- ^ Ludwig Berger: Cubism in film music? Michael Nyman's music for the films Peter Greenaway, chapter 1.1.3. Munich 2011.
- ↑ Out of Africa, soundtrack; IMDb
- ↑ Uzak , cinemathèque, accessed July 30, 2018