Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra (Mozart)

The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra in A major, K. Anh. 104 (320e), is an incomplete composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Mozart is believed to have started work on this concerto around the same time as the Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major K. 364.^[1] For unknown reasons Mozart abandoned the work after writing 134 bars of the opening movement.^[2]

As completed the work consists of a single movement, Allegro.

Several composers have completed the movement.

• Around 1870, Otto Bach composed a completion which Dennis Pajot described as having a very obvious join between the part written by Mozart and the part written by Bach.^[2]
• In 1969, Robert D. Levin wrote a completion that was more sympathetic to the surviving material.^[2][3]
• In 1991, Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa wrote a highly original completion, commissioned by the International Mozarteum Foundation.^[4]
• More recently, composer Hans Ueckert announced he was working on a completion for the Octava Chamber Orchestra.^[5]
• Another composer to have made a completion is Philip Wilby.^[6]
• Another completion was made by Italian composer Alessandro Solbiati for I Solisti Aquilani and played first time in Rotterdam during International Viola Congress 2018 (soloists: Daniele Orlando, violin – Gianluca Saggini, viola – Giulio Ferretti, cello).^{[citation needed]}
• The contemporary Filipino-British composer Jeffrey Ching's three-movement completion, published by Verlag Neue Musik with Ching's original cadenzas, was premiered by the Dresden Staatskapelle under Michail Jurowski in 2017.^[7]

Sources

• Cummings, David M., ed. (2000). International Who's Who in Music and Musician's Directory 2000/2001: (In the Classical and Light Classical Fields). Routledge. ISBN 0948875534.
• Gutman, Robert (31 August 2011). Mozart. Random House. p. 562. ISBN 978-1-4464-7707-6. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
• Pajot, Dennis (2005). "K320e The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello". MozartForum.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
• "Hans Ueckert, Composer". Octava Chamber Orchestra. 2007. Retrieved 13 July 2013.

•  Sinfonia concertante in A für Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Orchester: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe

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