New Mozart Edition IV/11/10 Symphonies WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Series IV ORCHESTRAL WORKS WORK GROUP 11: SYMPHONIES • VOLUME 10 (SINGLE PIECES) PRESENTED BY WOLFGANG PLATH 1978 International Mozart Foundation, Online Publications IV New Mozart Edition IV/11/10 Symphonies Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (New Mozart Edition)* WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Complete Works BÄRENREITER KASSEL BASEL LONDON En coopération avec le Conseil international de la Musique Editorial Board: Dietrich Berke Wolfgang Plath Wolfgang Rehm Agents for BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS: Bärenreiter Ltd. 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International Mozart Foundation, Online Publications V New Mozart Edition IV/11/10 Symphonies CONTENTS Editorial Principles ……………..…………………………………………………..….. VII Foreword………….…………………….……………………………………………… VIII Facsimile: Leaf 1 r of the autograph of KV 409 (383 f)…………………………………… XI Facsimile: Leaf 1 r of the autograph of KV 477 (479 a)…………………………………… XII Facsimile: Autograph single leaf from KV 477 (479 a)…………………………….…….. XIII Facsimile: Leaf 14 r of the autograph (gathering 1) of KV 527……………………….…. XIV Facsimile: Leaf 1 r of the autograph of the fugue from KV 546…………………………. XV Symphony Menuett in C KV 409 (383 f)…………………………………………………. 3 Masonic Funeral Music KV 477 (479 a)………………………………………………….. 11 Overture to Don Giovanni KV 527 (concert version)……………………………………. 23 Adagio and Fugue in C minor KV 546…………………………………………………... 47 International Mozart Foundation, Online Publications VI New Mozart Edition IV/11/10 Symphonies EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES The New Mozart Edition (NMA) provides for research footnotes, all additions and completions in the music purposes a music text based on impeccable scholarship volumes are indicated, for which the following scheme applied to all available sources – principally Mozart’s applies: letters (words, dynamic markings, tr signs and autographs – while at the same time serving the needs numbers in italics; principal notes, accidentals before of practising musicians. The NMA appears in 10 Series principal notes, dashes, dots, fermatas, ornaments and subdivided into 35 Work Groups: smaller rests (half notes, quarters, etc.) in small print; slurs and crescendo marks in broken lines; grace and I: Sacred Vocal Works (1–4) ornamental notes in square brackets. An exception to II: Theatrical Works (5–7) the rule for numbers is the case of those grouping III: Songs, Part-Songs, Canons (8–10) triplets, sextuplets, etc. together, which are always in IV: Orchestral Works (11–13) italics, those added editorially in smaller print. Whole V: Concertos (14–15) measure rests missing in the source have been VI: Church Sonatas (16) completed tacitly. VII: Large Solo Instrument Ensembles (17–18) The title of each work as well as the VIII: Chamber Music (19–23) specification in italics of the instruments and voices at IX: Keyboard Music (24–27) the beginning of each piece have been normalised, the X: Supplement (28–35) disposition of the score follows today’s practice. The wording of the original titles and score disposition are For every volume of music a Critical provided in the Critical Commentary in German. The Commentary (Kritischer Bericht) in German is original notation for transposing instruments has been available, in which the source situation, variant retained. C-clefs used in the sources have been replaced readings or Mozart’s corrections are presented and all by modern clefs. Mozart always notated singly other special problems discussed. occurring sixteenth, thirty-second notes etc. crossed- Within the volumes and Work Groups the through, (i.e. instead of ); the notation completed works appear in their order of composition. therefore does not distinguish between long or short Sketches, draughts and fragments are placed in an realisations. The NMA generally renders these in the Appendix at the end of the relevant volume. Sketches modern notation etc.; if a grace note of this etc. which cannot be assigned to a particular work, but kind should be interpreted as ″short ″ an additional only to a genre or group of works, generally appear in chronological order at the end of the final volume of indication ″ ″ is given over the relevant grace note. the relevant Work Group. Where an identification Missing slurs at grace notes or grace note groups as regarding genre is not possible, the sketches etc. are well as articulation signs on ornamental notes have published in Series X, Supplement (Work Group 30: generally been added without comment. Dynamic Studies, Sketches, Draughts, Fragments, Various). Lost markings are rendered in the modern form, e.g. f and p compositions are mentioned in the relevant Critical instead of for: and pia: Commentary in German. Works of doubtful The texts of vocal works have been authenticity appear in Series X (Work Group 29). adjusted following modern orthography. The realisation Works which are almost certainly spurious have not of the bass continuo, in small print, is as a rule only been included. provided for secco recitatives. For any editorial Of the various versions of a work or part of departures from these guidelines refer to the relevant a work, that version has generally been chosen as the Foreword and to the Critical Commentary in German. A comprehensive representation of the basis for editing which is regarded as final and rd definitive. Previous or alternative forms are reproduced editorial guidelines for the NMA (3 version, 1962) in the Appendix. has been published in Editionsrichtlinien musikalischer The NMA uses the numbering of the Denkmäler und Gesamtausgaben [Editorial Guidelines Köchel Catalogue (KV); those numberings which differ for Musical Heritage and Complete Editions]. in the third and expanded edition (KV 3 or KV 3a ) are Commissioned by the Gesellschaft für Forschung and given in brackets; occasional differing numberings in edited by Georg von Dadelsen, Kassel etc., 1963, pp. the sixth edition (KV 6) are indicated. 99-129. Offprints of this as well as the Bericht über die With the exception of work titles, entries in Mitarbeitertagung und Kassel, 29. – 30. 1981 , the score margin, dates of composition and the published privately in 1984, can be obtained from the Editorial Board of the NMA. The Editorial Board International Mozart Foundation, Online Publications VII New Mozart Edition IV/11/10 Symphonies FOREWORD The present volume is the last in Work Group 11, “Haffner Symphony” KV 385 had to be published, Symphonies . Its contents, the Symphony-Menuet in in keeping with its chronological position, in C KV 409 (383 f), the Maurerische Trauermusik Symphonies Volume 6 of the NMA, even though it [Masonic Funeral Music ] KV 477 (479 a), the certainly was derived from an earlier, lost Serenade. concert version of the Overture to Don Giovanni KV Under such circumstances, it was simply impossible 527 as well as the Adagio and Fugue in C minor KV to retain the original concept for Volume 10 as the 546 are four quite different single pieces. 1 None of conclusion of Work Group 11, all the more so since these works – the Menuett KV 409 (383 f) excepted – some orchestral pieces were to be included in this stands in direct association with the genre volume simply because there was no more sensible “symphony”, for which reason the compilation in place for them within the systematic arrangement of this volume could appear extremely arbitrary and the NMA according to genres, although they certainly debatable. certainly cannot be classified as symphonies or symphonic movements. It can therefore not be In fact, the Symphonies Volume 10 of the NMA denied, but perhaps understood, that Symphonies • should have, according to the initial plans of the Volume 10 (Single Pieces ) in the NMA owes its Editorial Board, taken on a different appearance. It present form to the lack of a better solution. was primarily conceived as a possible later supplement for Symphonies Volume 7 presented as About the Individual Pieces early as 1959 by Günter Haußwald (†). In the Foreword of the latter volume (IV/11/7, p. X), 1. The Symphony-Menuet in C KV 409 (383 f), for Haußwald writes: “Beyond this [i.e. besides the whose editing from the autograph (Deutsche symphony versions based on serenades KV 204 Staatsbibliothek, Berlin) we are indebted to (213 a), 250 (248 b) und 320, printed in NMA Friedrich Schnapp, presents us with a puzzle. It is IV/11/7], further symphony versions based on certainly not a dance menuett, but a symphony- serenades are known in sources of more or less menuett, and indeed the most expansive that Mozart significant value. This is the case for Serenade KV ever wrote. Friedrich Schnapp comments: 203 (189 b), for which versions are extant with differing numbers of movements, sometimes with Georg Nikolaus Nissen once wrote on Mozart’s timpani. For the Serenade KV 100 (62 a) there is also hand-written score – then crossed it out again – the a symphony version. The Galimathias musicum KV remark that the Menuet could perhaps have been 32 is related to the serenade; it opens with a self- intended for the C major Symphony (KV 338); contained four-movement “ Miniature symphony ” Alfred Einstein took up this speculation in more which leads into the Quodlibet and is transmitted in recent times and expressed it initially with caution, an intact autograph source (cf.