Horn Concerto No. 3 (Mozart)

Horn Concerto No. 3 (Mozart)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, K. 447 was completed between 1784 and 1787.

Background

The composition was written as a friendly gesture for the hornist Joseph Leutgeb (his name is mentioned few times in the score), and Mozart probably didn´t consider it as particularly important, since he failed to enter it to the autograph catalogue of his works.cite book |title=Hornkonzert Nr. 3 Es-dur KV 447. Klavierauszug (Piano Reduction) |last=Mozart |first=W. A. |authorlink= |coauthors=Wiese, Henrik (preface) |year=2000|publisher=G. Henle Verlag |location=München |isbn= |pages=p. II-III |url= ISMN M-2018-0703-4] The autograph score remained well preserved, it is stored in the British Library in London.cite book |title=Hornkonzert Nr. 3 Es-dur KV 447. Klavierauszug (Piano Reduction) |last=Mozart |first=W. A. |authorlink= |coauthors=Wiese, Henrik (preface) |year=2000|publisher=G. Henle Verlag |location=München |isbn= |pages=p. II-III |url= ISMN M-2018-0703-4]

Structure

The work is in three movements:

*I. Allegro
*II. Romance (Larghetto)
*III. Allegro Rondo

This concerto "has clarinets besides bassoons and string for accompaniment. They bring warmth and light colouring to this most attractive work, and in spite of unadventurous support they partner the bassoons in many typical phrases." [Martha Kingdon Ward, "Mozart and the Clarinet" "Music & Letters" 28, 2 (1947): 140]

Discography

Given its duration (no more than 20 minutes) it is quite common to find this Horn Concerto on the same CD as Mozart's other three, or in boxed sets of Mozart's concerti for wind instruments or even all his concerti. The Naxos Records CD "Complete Works for Horn & Orchestra" includes, besides the concerti, three rondos for horn and orchestra completed by musicologists.

William Purvis has recorded No. 3 along with No. 2, K. 417, with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, on a disc which also includes Mozart's Oboe Concerto, K. 314 and Bassoon Concerto, K. 191. Like the other two soloists, Purvis improvised his own cadenza for the two horn concerti on the disc. [ [http://www2.deutschegrammophon.com/cat/result?COMP_ID=&sort=newest_rec&ALBUM_TYPE=&SearchString=Mozart+K.+417&IN_SERIES=&ART_ID=&IN_XXAWARDS=&PRODUCT_NR=4236232&start=0&IN_XXSERIES=&IN_XXPQ=&MOZART_22=0&GENRE=&per_page=10 423 6232 Product Info] from Deutsche Grammophon website.]

Fred Rizner has recorded this concerto together with K. 495 with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by José Luis García Asensio on a Summit disc which also includes the Clarinet Concerto, K. 622 (with clarinetist Joaquin Valdepeñas).

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