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Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Orchestra (Mozart)

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The Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra, K. Anh. 56/315f by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an unfinished work that was written in Mannheim in 1778. It was written for an Academie des Amateurs that was to take place in Mannheim. Mozart himself was to play the piano part and Ignaz Fränzl, the concertmaster of the Mannheim orchestra, was to play the solo violin part.

Mozart only wrote the first 120 bars of the first movement, and only the first 74 bars are completely scored. Alfred Einstein believed that the work was abandoned due to the disbanding of the Mannheim orchestra; however, that had happened earlier that year when the Elector moved to Munich and most of his orchestra followed him, so the Academie des Amateurs replaced the Mannheim orchestra. The most likely explanation for the concerto being abandoned is that Mozart left Mannheim in December 1778, perhaps because the Academie did not start as early as he thought it would. It is unknown why he did not continue working on the concerto on his journey home or when he was back in Salzburg.[1]

In 1990 the British composer Philip Wilby reconstructed and completed the work for The Complete Mozart Edition. Its premiere recording took place in 1990 with violinist Iona Brown and pianist Howard Shelley with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner, which was first issued as part of Volume 8 of The Complete Mozart Edition.

The autograph manuscript of the concerto is preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Recordings

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Conductor Soloists Orchestra Label Completion
Roger Norrington Daniel Hope, Sebastian Knauer Camerata Salzburg Warner Classics Philip Wilby
Neville Marriner Iona Brown, Howard Shelley Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Philips Classics Philip Wilby
Midori Goto, Christoph Eschenbach NDR-Sinfonieorchester Sony Records Philip Wilby
Kaspar Zehnder Vladyslava Luchenko, Frank Braley Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra Fuga Libera Philip Wilby
Jürgen Kussmaul Rainer Kussmaul, Monika Leonhard Amsterdam Mozart Players Channel Classics Philip Wilby
Peter Ruzicka Rainer Kussmaul, Sophie-Mayuko Vetter Hamburger Symphoniker Oehms Classics Fragment
Yoon Kuk Lee Eduard Okoun, Cyprien Katsaris Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie Piano 21 Robert Levin compl. + fragment
Nicholas McGegan Zsolt Kalló, Rita Papp Capella Savaria Hungaroton Robert Levin
Lawrence Cummings Bojan Čičić, Robert Levin Academy of Ancient Music AAM Robert Levin

References

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Mozart Jahrbuch 1991 p. 912

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