Symphony KV Anh. 220 (Mozart)

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The Symphony in A minor KV Anh. 220 (16a) is a symphony that was previously attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

General

Around 1799 the Leipzig publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel tried to collect Mozart's works from Mozart's sister and his wife as well as from musicians, copyists and publishers. Among them was a symphony in A Minor, in the handwritten manuscript -Catalog the publisher with a four bars long Incipit the first violin part was performed and is reported as the source of the Hamburg music dealer Johann Christoph Westphal. When Ludwig von Köchel arranged Mozart's works in the Köchel directory , the handwriting of the symphony had disappeared, so he recorded it as a lost work with the number “Appendix 220”.

In the third edition of the Köchel Index, Alfred Einstein (1937) assumed on the basis of these first four bars that the work was composed in London in 1765, gave it KV number 16a based on Mozart's first surviving symphony and said: “The early days the composition is clearly recognizable, also from the few bars that have survived. ” This assessment was also retained in the sixth edition of the Köchel Directory (1964).

In 1982, the archives of the Odense Municipal Symphony Orchestra in Denmark found sheet music for a symphony in A minor which was labeled “del Sgr. Mozart ”and the beginning of which corresponds to the incipit from the Breitkopf catalog mentioned above. However, it is not an autograph , but a copy in which several copyists were involved.

A note on the title page indicates that the symphony came into the possession of the Danish Collegium Musicum no later than 1793 (probably from the music dealer Westphal), while the watermark on the paper of the orchestral parts shows the date of 1779. None of the manuscripts identified in the paper can be associated with a copyist from among the Mozart family. In the 1780s, Westphal had advertised several authentic symphonies as well as works from “dubious” sources such as KV 16a or the symphony KV Appendix C 11.08 with Mozart's authorship. Probably one of the symphonies which he then sold to the Collegium as Mozart's works was KV 16a.

Wolfgang Plath published the manuscript, which became known as the “Odense” Symphony, as a score in 1984 and presented it to the professional world at scientific symposia. The work has been recorded several times on CD (including by the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood as part of the complete recording of the Mozart symphonies) and published in 2000 in the supplement to the New Mozart Edition under the heading “Works of doubtful authenticity”, “da the editorial management of the NMA has not yet considered the authenticity discussion about the work to be concluded, especially since an alternative to Mozart as the author still cannot be named ”.

Neal Zaslaw (1989) thinks that the “Odense” symphony was composed later than 1765. “ But even the stylistic proximity to the Mozart symphonies of the later 1760s and early 1770s makes exact dating without an authentic source impossible. Indeed, in terms of style, KV 16a is often very different from all other Mozart works. ” Wolfgang Gersthofer (2007) completely disregards the work in his review of Mozart's early symphonies, “ because experts hardly seriously consider them as Mozart's work . is " Similarly, expresses Wolfgang Scherliess (2005): " After a long and intensive discussion is the Mozart research agree that the Odense Symphony both lore historically and stylistically can not be considered works of Mozart ".

To the music

Instrumentation: two oboes , two horns in A, two violins , viola , cello , double bass . In contemporary orchestras it was also customary to use bassoon and harpsichord (if available in the orchestra) to reinforce the bass voice or as a continuo , even without separate notation .

Duration: approx. 13 minutes.

The symphony has three movements:

  • Allegro moderato
  • Andantino
  • Rondo: Allegro moderato

The first movement with a characteristic falling line and tone repetition at the beginning runs through without repetitions. The Andantino begins with a song-like theme that is reminiscent of the aria “Che farò senza Euridice” from the opera Orpheus and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald von Gluck . The finale in rondo form stands out because of the somewhat exotic “Turkish” refrain , which is probably an imitation of Hungarian folk music, which itself is a parody of supposedly Turkish music.

Beginning of the first movement:

\ relative c '' '{\ key a \ minor \ tempo "Allegro moderato" a8. \ sfz e32 (c) \ repeat unfold 4 {a8} r8 a -. \ pa (b) r b-. b (c) r c-. c \ cresc (d) d (c) c (b) b (a) a'8. \ fz}

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Neal Zaslaw: Mozart's Symphonies. Context, performance practice, reception. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989. A German translation can be found in extracts in Neal Zaslaw: Symphony in A minor KV 16a (A220). Text contribution to: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Symphonies Vol. VII , German translation by DECCA 1988. Recording by the Academy of Ancient Music ; Concertmaster Jaap Schröder, continuo: Christopher Hogwood. DECCA Record, London 1988.
  2. ^ Alfred Einstein: Chronological-thematic directory of all of Wolfgang Amade Mozart's music works. In addition to the information about the lost, started, transferred, dubious and superseded compositions by Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Köchel. Third edition, edited by Alfred Einstein. Breitkopf & Härtel-Verlag, Leipzig 1937, 984 pp.
  3. ^ Franz Giegling, Alexander Weinmann , Gerd Sievers : Chronological-thematic directory of all of Wolfgang Amade Mozart's sound works. In addition to the information about the lost, started, transferred, dubious and superseded compositions by Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Köchel. Sixth edition. Breitkopf & Härtel-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1964, 1023 pp.
  4. ↑ a b Volker Scherliess : The symphonies. In: Silke Leopold (Ed.): Mozart-Handbuch. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-7618-2021-6
  5. ↑ NMA Volume X / 29/3, foreword by Dietrich Berke, Bärenreiter, Kassel 2000, p. XXII f. ( online )
  6. ^ Wolfgang Gersthofer: Symphonies KV 16-134. In: Joachim Brügge, Claudia Maria Knispel (Ed.): The Mozart Handbook, Volume 1: Mozart's orchestral works and concerts. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2007, ISBN 3-8900-7461-8 , pp. 15-27.

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