Concerto Bb major [antikvár]

BOCCHERINI, VIOLONCELLO CONCERTO Bb MAJORBoccherini-s Cello Concerto in Bb major was so far only known in Friedrich Griitzmacher's arrangement. When searching for its original form I unfortunately lacked to find an autograph or an edition from the composer's time, but discovered a copy of the score in the possession of the Dresden State Library, which no doubt has served as sample to Griitzmacher, who lived at Dresden. Even a superficial comparison shows with how little respect the arranger has dealt with the traditional work, by compiling wantonly altered parts of it with such from other works of Bocche-rini and Orchestra Tutti of his own to a sort of effective hotchpotch, the least touched part of which is the middle movement taken from an other Cello Concerto.Certainly the Dresden copy contains such inconsistencies in the orchestra part, that I in my turn too believed not to undertake responsibility for the publication before a careful revision. This left the5010part as well as unchanged, while the middle parts of the poorly orchestrated Tutti and the thoroughbass-like accompanying parts of the5011required numerous correctionsin order to comply with the most modest claims to a correct and well-sounding setting. This applies in particular for the Violas. They have in the Soli the function of the bass, which thus lies often higher than the upper part or single tones of harmony and gives rise to wrong harmonies such as fourth-sixth-chordes. I have transferred them almost throughout to the Celli, one octave lower. The Tutti too I could release from a certain uneasiness and scantiness by elevating the Violas from doubling the bass to an indépendant ripieno part. The most outstanding expression signs were completed, mostly after parallele passages. Moreover I have marked by signs suggestions for curtailing some diffusenesses and repetitions, so giving to the work an efficient conciseness.A detailed report for all these interventions would lead too far and would lack interest owing to the inexactitude of the pattern. I was eager by my work to mend deficiencies, but not to deprive the piece of its simplicity and freshness by unjustified alterations.Richard Sturzenegger.