Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra (Mozart).
The particular import of this is that of the genre: the sinfonia concertante was more frequently favored without a second movement and certainly without one that was tragic or pathetic. Barry S. Brook notes that the symphonie concertante was rarely in a minor key and that “melodic variety is a hallmark of the symphonie concertante.Detailed outlines of the first movements of the Concerto and the Sinfonia Concertante. are provided in appendices A and B. The first movement of the Concerto is arranged thematically in an ABA form, the. last section of which is itself cast in a ternary design with coda.The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364 (320d), was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At the time of its composition in 1779, Mozart was on a tour of Europe that included Mannheim and Paris.He had been experimenting with the sinfonia concertante genre and this work can be considered his most successful realization in this cross-over genre between.
In the middle of these experiments and accomplishments, the Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola stands out as one of Mozart’s most seductively rich works and surely as the finest of his string concertos. He probably wrote this work in the summer of 1779. Mozart and the viola.As one might expect from its name, the Sinfonia concertante in E-flat, K. 364 is both symphonic in character and has a violin and viola soloists, in the manner of a double concerto. However, concertante also meant to play “in concert” among a mixed group of instruments, and Mozart writes in this more conversational vein as well.
This is the Sinfonia concertante in E-flat, K. 364, for solo violin and viola with an orchestra of two oboes, two horns and strings. This is a kind of classical-era concerto-grosso, using more than one soloist. It is set up like other concertos Mozart wrote, with three movements in a fast-slow-fast arrangement.
