[Trombone-l] Mozart Concert Rondo

Wed Jun 11 07:10:24 CDT 2008

This piece works very well on alto trombone, I performed it last year in a recital and it came off very well.  The orcestral reduction to a piano part is very well done (many concertos just do not work in a reduction, but this sounds as though it was written for piano).  The horn is on your face a lot, so that increases the difficulty.  I transcribed the piece into alto clef, but can be read from the original horn in Eb on alto trombone.  It is in the key of Eb and the range goes from Bb two ledger lines down in alto clef to C above the first ledger line in alto clef.  However, the majority of the piece lies in the register between Eb and Bb in the upper tessitura.   

It is a great piece on alto trombone.  I think a large bore tenor would be too dark.  In my personal opinion, I think this works better than any of Mozart's horn concertos, with piano, because of the accompaniment texture. 

<html><div>Dennis F. Cramer <BR>Teacher-Trombonist-Historian-Conductor</div></html>> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:56 -0400> To: trombone-l at samford.edu> From: rihecht at earthlink.net> Subject: [Trombone-l] Mozart Concert Rondo> > A friend asked me about this piece. He hasn't seen it, and I don't > know it. Any cursory comments? Difficulty? All Mozart is hard, but > within that parameter, how hard? How's the range, particularly high range?> > Roger Hecht > > _______________________________________________> Trombone-l mailing list> Trombone-l at samford.edu> http://maillists.samford.edu/mailman/listinfo/trombone-l
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