- Biography of Antonio Rosetti
- List of Rosetti's horn concertos with their different numbering systems
Antonio Rosetti (1750–1792)
Concerto in D-sharp for Corno da caccia princip. (RWV C 49)
Rosetti's most popular horn concerto
Probably Rosetti's best-known horn concerto, it was composed “pour Monsieur Dürrschmied”, as Rosetti himself noted on the autograph score. The dedicatee is probably Carl Türrschmidt (1753–1797), son of Johann Türrschmidt (1725–1800), a horn player employed at the Wallerstein court. Carl Türrschmidt is documented as having gone on a concert tour with the horn player Palsa as early as 1780, and on 24 March 1780 he played a concerto for two horns by Rosetti in Paris. Türrschmidt and Palsa also performed in Leipzig in 1780.
With this beautiful concerto, composed for him in Wallerstein in 1779, Rosetti certainly gave the young horn player a good start as a soloist.
Since 2004, Rosetti's most popular horn concerto has been available for the first time in a version that is authentic to the autograph sources. It is an indispensable piece of repertoire.
The orchestral material comprises:
- 5x violin 1, 5x violin 2
- 2x viola 1, 2x viola 2
- 4x basso
- 2 oboes, 2 tutti horns
- solo horn
No. 1: Allegro moderato
