Oboe Concerto [antikvár]

The present publication, which is the first, of Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C Major is based on old manuscript parts found in the library of the Mozarteum in Salzburg. The music is identical with the Flute Concerto in D (K 314) and for several reasons it appears probable that Mozart composed the work originally for oboe and only later adapted it for flute. Alfred Einstein says about the Concerto in his new edition of the Koechel catalogue : "Mozart mentions in a letter to his father (14th February, 1778 from Mannheim) two concertos and three quartets which he had finished for the flautist H. de Jean and for which he received 96 florins. Later, however, (from Nancy 3rd October, 1778) he speaks of a single Flute Concerto for M. de Jean. The solution to this contradiction may perhaps be found in the fact that the Mozarteum possesses old manuscript parts of one of Mozart's 2 Flute Concertos (K 314) for oboe principale, two violins, two oboes, two horns, viola and basses. It is probable that the Flute Concerto (K 314) is identical with the so-called Oboe Concerto for Ferlendis, which Mozart mentioned in a letter of February 14th, 1778. Mozart may have adapted the Concerto for de Jean just because of lack of time."