FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER

Viola Concerto D major

Norbert Gertsch (Editor)

Julia Ronge (Editor)

Johannes Umbreit (Piano reduction)

Kim Kashkashian (Fingering and bowing for Viola)

Robert D. Levin (Cadenzas)

Urtext Edition, Piano reduction, paperbound

with marked and unmarked string parts

Pages 58 (VIII+23+11+16), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm

Weight 252 g

HN 739 · ISMN 979-0-2018-0739-3

 

 

 

Along with the Stamitz concerto, Hoffmeister‘s Viola Concerto is the most important audition piece for viola players. Yet, it has been handed down in a complicated source tradition, surviving in a single contemporary manuscript covered with many layers of markings. Our piano reduction reconstructs, for the first time, the earliest textual layer in this source, thereby coming as close as possible to Hoffmeister‘s actual intentions. The reconstructed original is accompanied by a detailed critical commentary. Fingering and bowing marks have been added by no less a musician than Kim Kashkashian!

 

 

 

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• Viola Concerto D major