MOZART, Clarinet Concerto in A, (K. 622) 1791 ~ Alfred Prinz, Clarinet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (*27 January 1756 ~5 December 1791)
Clarinet Concerto in A (major), K. 622, 1791
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, was written to be played on the basset clarinet, which can play lower notes than an ordinary Clarinet. It was completed in October 1791 for the Clarinettist Anton Stadler his close friend, a Virtuoso Clarinettist and co-inventor of the Basset Clarinet, an instrument with an extended range of lower notest consists of three movements, in a fast–slow–fast succession.
00:00, I. Allegro
13:05, II. Adagio
21:14, III. Rondo : Allegro
Clarinet Soloist: Alfred Prinz
WPO & Karl Böhm
The work was completed a few weeks before the Composer's death, and has been described as his 'swan-song' and his last great completed work. The date of its first performance is not certain, but may have been 16 October 1791 in Prague.
The manuscript score is lost, but from the latter part of the 20th century onwards many performances of the Work have been given on Basset Clarinets in conjectural reconstructions of Mozart's original.
Clarinet Soloist: Alfred Prinz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Prinz
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