W. A. MOZART | Sonata in E minor (originally for violin and piano) | instrumentation for double bass and piano
FILE FORMAT: PDF | 600 dpi (28 pages)
RELEASE: final
INCLUDED PARTS: Piano (score), 3x double bass
TUNING OF DOUBLE BASS: GDAE, AEBE and cGDAE
SOURCE: Urtext editions, based on composer's autograph
COMMENT: Mozart Sonata with the low-tuned double bass is now available. I used to envy pianists and violinists for their opportunities to play Mozart's chamber music works. Mozart never wrote anything similar for the cello, let alone the double bass. And I originally thought that it wasn't even worth experimenting in this direction, because I couldn't imagine that any of Mozart's great works could sound ‘right’ with the double bass. And yet: this version feels good in my opinion. The voices from Mozart's score are transposed and distributed very precisely here, but somewhat unconventionally: the double bass sometimes plays the lowest voice, which in the original version was played by the left hand of the piano. The idea was to integrate the low register of the instrument into the sound of this work without losing of its character. There is no need to comment on Mozart's musical style: his music is the very definition of the early classical style. I could imagine listening to this sonata at orchestra auditions instead of Dittersdorf and Vanhall concertos (which are also, by the way, not original compositions for the modern double bass), as it is both deeper in register and requires a greater variety of articulation, bowing technique and the finest musicianship from the performer.
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