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Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622

179130 min

This guide follows Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 (1791) in three parts: Allegro (sonata form), Adagio (sonata form) and Rondo: Allegro (rondo).

Recording: Peter Schmidl (clarinet), Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein (1985)

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Follow all 20 sections as they play

  1. I · Sonata form
  2. II · Sonata form
  3. III: · Rondo
ISonata form0:52–13:25

The orchestra opens alone with lively themes in the language of comic opera, and even brings the opening back in overlapping before the closes. The clarinet's follows, ranging over the whole instrument and decorating the themes in runs of semiquavers. Many ideas trace back to the falling thirds of the first four , even in the . Then the begins, and a final orchestral closes the .

  1. Orchestral
IISonata form13:43–21:51
III: Rondo22:07–31:06

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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Wolfgang Amadeus MozartConcertosClassical periodA majorSonata formRondo

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