Oboe Concerto (Mozart)

The Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C major, K. 314 was probably written around the year 1777 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for oboist Giuseppe Ferlendis, 1778 and reworked by the composer to a Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in D major. The concert will be played all over the world a lot and heard, as it is also required in auditions as a standard work, the major concertos for oboe.

The piece

As the Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 1 is the piece for the then standard instrumentation wrote: strings, two oboes and two horns.

The piece consists of three movements:

The orchestration is light and transparent, so that the soloist is emphasized and the rhythmic figures strongly expressed, especially when the orchestra introduces for the first occurrence of the soloists. The second set is of very elegiac character, in which the oboe can exploit their soft, melodic sound very good. Mozart moves in the second movement of the concerto, in a tone of high-quality aria of the opera seria style. The exuberant third movement, Rondo, reminiscent in places of Haydn, is in Alla breve - clock, with a leaping and jagged theme that shows kinship to the aria of the Blonde " What bliss, what joy " from Mozart's " The Abduction from the Seraglio " has. Mozart could be to send the material of the oboe concerto to compose this same aria from the father. Particularly noteworthy is the central part of the sentence in which a theme based on a throw- motif, is processed in a three- part counterpoint; a most brilliant of Mozart's ideas.

The Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major

The Concerto for Flute and Orchestra No. 2 in D Major is an adaptation of the oboe concerto. The Dutch amateur flautist Ferdinand de Jean commissioned Mozart to write four flute quartets and three flute concertos, of which Mozart wrote three string quartets and a new concert. Mozart was not this instrument at heart, but wrote to earn money for an amateur musician, where even then the instrument was already very popular. Instead another new concert to write, he worked the oboe concerto for Flute Concerto No. 2 and made ​​some minor changes to make it the character of the flute needs. Jean De Mozart paid only a portion of the originally agreed fee for the work, since the second concert was based on the Oboe Concerto.

Origin

While the original oboe concerto was lost before Alfred Einstein Mozart: his character, his work wrote, but it was suspected that the Flute Concerto No. 2 is just an adaptation of the oboe concerto, because references in Mozart's letters to an existing Oboe Concerto and concerning evidence in the orchestration of the second flute concerto, which suggested an adaptation. Later Bernhard Paumgartner found at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the set of parts of the oboe concerto KV 314, which finally led to the certainty that one actually has to do it with an oboe concerto.