Classical Composer: | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus |
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Work: | Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 417 |
Year Composed: | 1783 |
Instrumentation: | 0, 2, 0, 0 - 2, 0, 0, 0, str, solo horn |
Publishers: |
Edwin F. Kalmus Schott Music Bärenreiter Verlag The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection Breitkopf & Härtel |
Duration: | 00:14:00 |
Period: | Classical (1750-1830) |
Work Category: | Concerto |
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The first of the three completed horn concertos, the Horn Concerto in E flat major, K. 417, bears the date 27 May 1783, and a dedication to 'Leitgeb (the Salzburg spelling of the horn-player's name), Esel, Ochs und Narr' (Leutgeb, Ass, Ox and Idiot). It is scored for an orchestra of two oboes, two horns and strings. The first movement opens with the usual orchestral exposition, its two themes followed by the entry of the soloist, with material of his own. The short development adds a feeling of greater intensity before the return of the earlier material. The slow movement, of which the original autograph has been lost, makes very little use of the other wind instruments, which appear only at the beginning and end of the movement, and to mark the conclusion of the first section. They return in the final hunting rondo, with its characteristically ebullient principal theme.
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