Baerenreiter Verlag Two Duos KV 423, 424 - Mozart/Berke - Violin/Cello - Score/Parts

Zwei Duos fur Violine und Violoncello nach den Duos fur Violine und Viola

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Editor: Dietrich Berke
Format: Score and Parts, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Violin and Cello

• Mozart masterpieces in contemporary arrangements
• First modern editions
• Baerenreiter quality with detailed preface and critical report

In the 25 years following Mozart's death an enormous amount of his music was arranged and adapted for the insatiable appetite of the European musical public. Nearly every major work was arranged for piano four hand, even some of the operas were arranged for string quartet or other chamber scoring. Baerenreiter publications turn back the time and offer us an insight into performance practice of the early 19th century; music meant to be played!

Johannes Traeg, an acquaintance of Mozart's and a publisher, quickly responded to the public demand for domestic Mozart arrangements at the start of the 19th century. His arrangements of the Violin - Viola duos K. 423-424 for Violin and Violoncello, published in 1805, are a response to the need for a more active cello part in chamber music.

Dietrich Berke, editor of the "New Mozart Edition" and editor of the NMA volume containing the duos, clearly shows the path from the Mozart autograph to the arrangement and offers us an informative preface on the duos and their place in domestic music making at the turn of the 19thcentury.

Contents:

• Preface
• Editorial Note
• Critical Commentary
• Duo in G nach KV 423 / Duo in G major after K. 423:
  • Allegro
  • Adagio
  • Rondeau - Allegro
• Duo in B nach KV 424 / Duo in B-flat major after K. 424:
  • Adagio - Allegro
  • Andante cantabile
  • Thema (con Variazioni) - Andante grazioso