Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music KV 477 (479a)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music KV 477 (479a)
- Instrumentation Orchestra
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Series Bärenreiter Urtext
- Editor Ulrich Konrad H. C. Robbins Landon
- Edition Score (Urtext) Download
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA9189-DL
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Description:
As the Mozart specialist Ulrich Konrad was able to prove in 2020, the version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Maurerische Trauermusik" that is widely used today does not go back to the composer himself. Instead, it is a posthumous combination of two different versions of the piece, each with different instrumentation.
Mozart wrote this short orchestral piece in 1785 for a Masonic funeral service to mark the death of two members of Mozart's lodge for an ensemble of two oboes, a clarinet, a basset horn, two horns and strings. At a later date, he composed two further basset horn parts and a contrabassoon part to replace the horns. The "addition version" that is common today, in which all the wind instruments mentioned play together, was not intended by Mozart and dates back to the printed publication of all the parts together in 1805 (i.e. after Mozart's death).
This edition contains all three versions: the original and the later version by Mozart (ed. by Ulrich Konrad) as well as the posthumous double scoring (ed. by H. C. Robbins Landon, from the "New Mozart Edition"). All three versions can be played with the orchestral parts.
Mozart wrote this short orchestral piece in 1785 for a Masonic funeral service to mark the death of two members of Mozart's lodge for an ensemble of two oboes, a clarinet, a basset horn, two horns and strings. At a later date, he composed two further basset horn parts and a contrabassoon part to replace the horns. The "addition version" that is common today, in which all the wind instruments mentioned play together, was not intended by Mozart and dates back to the printed publication of all the parts together in 1805 (i.e. after Mozart's death).
This edition contains all three versions: the original and the later version by Mozart (ed. by Ulrich Konrad) as well as the posthumous double scoring (ed. by H. C. Robbins Landon, from the "New Mozart Edition"). All three versions can be played with the orchestral parts.