Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante K. Anh. 104/K.320e (fragment) (1770)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was one of the most influential, popular and prolific composers of the classical period. A child prodigy, from an early age he began composing over 600 works, including some of the most famous pieces of symphonic, chamber, operatic, and choral music.

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Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra in A major, K. Anh. 104/K. 320e (1770)

1. Allegro
(I don't know the name of the composer who finished the first movement of this recording)

Vera Beths, violin
Jürgen Kussmaul, viola & conductor
Anner Bijlsma, cello
Amsterdam Mozart Players (rec. 1993)

Mozart is believed to have started work on this concerto around the same time as the Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major K. 364. For unknown reasons Mozart abandoned the work after writing 134 bars of the opening movement. As completed the work consists of a single movement, Allegro.

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. In 1969, Robert D. Levin wrote a completion that was more sympathetic to the surviving material. More recently, composer Hans Ueckert announced he was working on a completion for the Octava Chamber Orchestra. Another composer to have made a completion is Philip Wilby. 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). #ClassicalMusic