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The Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775, premiering during the holiday season that year in Salzburg. It follows the typical fast-slow-fast musical structure. Mozart composed the majority of his concertos for string instruments from 1773 to 1779, but it is unknown for whom, or for what occasion, he wrote them. Similarly, the dating of these works is unclear. Analysis of the handwriting, papers and watermarks has proved that all five violin concertos were re-dated several times. The year of composition of the fifth concerto 1775 was scratched out and replaced by 1780 , and later changed again to 1775 . Mozart would not use the key of A major for a concerto again until the Piano Concerto K. 414. The autograph score is preserved in the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. The concerto is scored for two oboes, two horns and strings. • The movements are as follows: • 1. Allegro Aperto - Adagio - Allegro Aperto • 2. Adagio • and 3. Rondo - Tempo di Minuetto. • The aperto marking on the first movement is a rare marking in Mozart's instrumental music, but appears much more frequently in his operatic music. It implies that the piece should be played in a broader, more majestic way than might be indicated simply by allegro. The first movement opens with the orchestra playing the main theme, a typical Mozartian tune. The solo violin comes in with a short but sweet dolce adagio passage in A Major with a simple accompaniment in the orchestra. (This is the only instance in Mozart's concerto repertoire in which an adagio interlude of this sort occurs at the first soloist entry of the concerto.) It then transitions back to the main theme with the solo violin playing a different melody on top of the orchestra. The first movement is 10-11 minutes long. • The rondo finale's main theme is a typical Mozartean theme, but the contrasting sections feature loud passages of Turkish music that have caused some to call this the Turkish Concerto . • Mozart later composed the Adagio for violin and orchestra, K. 261 as a substitute slow movement for this concerto. • The whole piece is about 28 minutes long. • ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- • FREE .mp3 and .wav files of all Mozart's music at: http://www.mozart-archiv.de/ • FREE sheet music scores of any Mozart piece at: http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/start... • ALSO check out these cool sites: http://musopen.org/ • and http://imslp.org/wiki/ • ------------------------------------------------------------------------- • NOTE: I do not know who the performers of this are, nor the place and date of recording!!! Any suggestions are welcome. • ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • ENJOY!!!! :D
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