Serenade in c minor, K388 (parts only)-2OB/2CL/2BSN/2HN

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Publisher: Henle

Edition: 29792

$42.95

Serenade #12 in c minor, K388
for two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, and two bassoons
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - Austrian composer

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Menuetto & Trio

IV. Allegro

" I've had to turn out a serenade on short order”: these lines from Mozart to his father offer a glimpse into the everyday life of a composer dependent on patronage. Mozart was about to be married when he pulled this wind piece out of his hat. Yet the results are far removed from the detached, courtly style of the serenade: the work, one of the jewels of the wind repertoire, opens full of earnestness and profundity in the gloomy key of C minor. The high opinion Mozart had of this octet is evident in the fact that he later arranged it for string quintet.

Edited by Henrik Wiese. This title is parts only. To order the study score, please click here.

INSTRUMENTATION & TAGS:

INSTR 2 Bassoons 2 Clarinets 2 French Horns 2 Oboes