Oboe Concerto (Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Oboe Concerto in C ma-
jor, K. 314 was composed in the spring or summer of
1777, for the oboist Giuseppe Ferlendis (17551802)
from Bergamo. In 1778, Mozart re-worked it as a
concerto for ute in D major.[1] The concerto is a widely
studied piece for both instruments and is one of the more
important concerti in the oboe repertoire.[2]
1 Movements
As with his Flute Concerto No. 1, the piece is arranged The rst movement of Mozarts unnished Oboe Con-
for a standard set of orchestral strings - (violin I/II, viola certo in F major, K. 293 (1778) was completed by musi-
and cello/double-bass doubling the bass line), two oboes, cologist William Drabkin in 2015.[5]
and two horns in D/C.[3] The rst and last movements are
in the home key of C major, while the second movement
is in the subdominant key of F major.
The piece itself is divided into three movements:
I. Allegro aperto
II. Adagio ma non troppo
III. Rondo : Allegretto
2 Flute Concerto No. 2
The Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major is an adaptation
of the original oboe concerto. Dutch autist Ferdinand
De Jean (17311797) commissioned Mozart for four
ute quartets and three ute concerti; which Mozart only
completed three quartets and only one new ute con-
certo. Instead of creating a new second concerto, Mozart
rearranged the oboe concerto he had written a year ear-
lier as the second ute concerto, although with substan-
tial changes for it to t with what the composer deemed
ute-like. However, De Jean did not pay Mozart for this
concerto because it was based on the oboe concerto.[2][4]
3 Origin
While the original version for oboe had been lost before
Alfred Einstein wrote Mozart: His Character, His Work,
the oboe origin of the ute concerto was suspected then,
in part because of references in letters to a now-missing
oboe concerto, as Einstein wrote, and of similar details in
the orchestral string lines which suggested a transposition
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was used. Also, Einstein noted the two scores in D Major
and C Major of the K. 314 Concerto in the Library of
the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, which led
to the belief that the oboe concerto was the origin of the
ute concerto.[2] The orchestra parts of the composition
and solo oboe part in C were rediscovered by Bernhard
Paumgartner in Salzburg, in 1920.[1]
4 See Also
5 References
[1] Mozart, W. A.; Giegling, Franz (foreword) (2003). Konz-
ert in C fr Oboe und Orchester. Klavierauszug. Kassel:
Brenreiter-Verlag. p. IV. Cite uses deprecated parame-
ter |coauthors= (help) ISMN M-00645740-3
[2] Riordan, George T. (1995). The History of the Mozart
Concerto K. 314 (PDF). International Double Reed
Society & University of Colorado, College of Music.
Archived from the original (PDF) on February 7, 2007.
Retrieved May 2013.
[3] Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314 (K. 285d). All-
music.
[4] Freed, Richard. Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. October
57, 2006
[5] Drabkin, W. (2015, July 4). Music Haven: Historically
Informed Composition. Retrieved October 13, 2015,
from http://themusichavenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/
historically-informed-composition.html
6 External links
Oboe Concerto in C KV 314 (285d): Score
and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-
Ausgabe
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Flute Concerto No. 2 in D KV 314 (285d): Score

and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-
Ausgabe

Performance of Flute Concerto by the Gardner

Chamber Orchestra with soloist Paula Robison from
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 for-
mat

Manning, Dwight (1996). Cadenzas and Eingnge

for the Mozart Oboe Concerto, K. 314: An An-
notated Bibliography (PDF). International Double
Reed Society & University of Colorado, College of
Music. Archived from the original (PDF) on Febru-
ary 7, 2007. Retrieved May 2013.
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