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Antonio Rosetti (1750–1792)
Concerto for Corno principale in D-sharp (RWV C 48)
For this edition, the available sources were examined afresh. The choices were manuscript copies from Salzburg and Wallerstein, as well as the print by Boyer in Paris. The print, however, lacks several parts. The Salzburg source, a copy by the horn player Joseph Michael Mayr, must also be treated with caution: Mayr is documented as having made a number of alterations to Rosetti's horn concertos. Here, too, passages are missing that are present in the Wallerstein manuscripts.
Two copies are held in the Oettingen-Wallerstein collection. A comparison of the watermarks in the paper showed that only one manuscript dates from Rosetti's lifetime; the other dates from around 1800 or later. And indeed, the manuscript D HR III 4 ½ 4° 278 offers the most virtuosic version with the most convincing articulation.
This new edition thus restores the correct formal design of the concerto, typical of Rosetti, e.g. the long introduction and the correct form of the rondo. Numerous errors, both small and large, could be corrected.
1st movement: Allegro con brio