Oboe Concerto (Mozart)
Oboe Concerto (Mozart)
Oboe Concerto (Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Oboe Concerto in C ma- was used. Also, Einstein noted the two scores in D Major
jor, K. 314 was composed in the spring or summer of and C Major of the K. 314 Concerto in the Library of
1777, for the oboist Giuseppe Ferlendis (17551802) the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, which led
from Bergamo. In 1778, Mozart re-worked it as a to the belief that the oboe concerto was the origin of the
concerto for ute in D major.[1] The concerto is a widely ute concerto.[2] The orchestra parts of the composition
studied piece for both instruments and is one of the more and solo oboe part in C were rediscovered by Bernhard
important concerti in the oboe repertoire.[2] Paumgartner in Salzburg, in 1920.[1]
The Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major is an adaptation [3] Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314 (K. 285d). All-
of the original oboe concerto. Dutch autist Ferdinand music.
De Jean (17311797) commissioned Mozart for four
ute quartets and three ute concerti; which Mozart only [4] Freed, Richard. Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314.
completed three quartets and only one new ute con- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. October
certo. Instead of creating a new second concerto, Mozart 57, 2006
rearranged the oboe concerto he had written a year ear- [5] Drabkin, W. (2015, July 4). Music Haven: Historically
lier as the second ute concerto, although with substan- Informed Composition. Retrieved October 13, 2015,
tial changes for it to t with what the composer deemed from http://themusichavenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/
ute-like. However, De Jean did not pay Mozart for this historically-informed-composition.html
concerto because it was based on the oboe concerto.[2][4]
6 External links
3 Origin
While the original version for oboe had been lost before
Alfred Einstein wrote Mozart: His Character, His Work, Oboe Concerto in C KV 314 (285d): Score
the oboe origin of the ute concerto was suspected then, and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-
in part because of references in letters to a now-missing Ausgabe
oboe concerto, as Einstein wrote, and of similar details in
the orchestral string lines which suggested a transposition
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