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| • | In the 1770s Mozart had been experimenting with the Sinfonia concertante genre, leading in 1779 to the Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra K. 364, which can be considered his most successful realisation in this cross-over genre between Symphony and Concerto.
It is also one of the few classical compositions where a viola gets a soloistic role before an orchestra, whether it is a second role (compared to the solo violin), and not in a concerto, which gives more focus to the soloist(s) than a Sinfonia concertante. While the Sinfonia is a popular piece, it is not often heard in concert because of the need to find an equally skilled solo violinist and viola player.
The viola part is written in D instead of E flat, and the viola player must tune his strings to a semitone sharper (scordatura technique). It gives the instrument a more brilliant tune, and it sounds much better ner a violin.
The American composer and bassist Edgar Meyer was so interested in this work that in 1995 he wrote a double concerto for double bass, cello and orchestra that, while very different in style, closely mirrors the structure of Mozart's Sinfonia concertante.
The slow second movement is the best known, largely because of Michael Nyman's variations on it, used as the soundtrack to the Peter Greenaway film Drowning by Numbers. The original piece is also heard after each of the drownings in the screenplay.
Compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus MozartConcertante symphonies
Source: [wikipedia: sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra]
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