The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra in A major, K. Anh. 104 (320e), is an incomplete composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Background
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]
Structure
As completed the work consists of a single movement, Allegro.
Completions
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]
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 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]
References
^Gutman 2011, p. 562 "...he started work on a triple concerto or sinfonia concertante for violin, viola, and violoncello (K. Anh. 104/320e), whose surviving fragment, like that of the Mannheim double concerto, augurs greatness.
