Rare orchestral works with great trombone solos
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:24 pm
Quote from: robcat2075 on Mar 06, 2017, 01:18PMI've never heard that before either. Apparently that is from Mozart's first "opera" of a sort, composed at age 11.
Certainly an unusual tactic.
Or was it? Were trombone/vocal duets a thing at the time? Or was it just some crazy 11-year-old thing to do?
Arie with obbligato trombone were quite common in 18th century Austria. Mozart was certainly inspired by a lot of precedent. There is a great article by Stewart Carter in one of the early Historic Brass Society Journal (1990 or 1991 I believe). He already lists quite a few examples between the mid 1600's and mid 1700's, and that's 27 years ago, and limited only to Vienna...There are others beyond the time period he explored and from other locations (including Salzburg, where Mozart grew up, as you probably know).
If we're going to include those oratorios and operas with trombone obbligato arie, then we should probably also include the works by L.Mozart and M.Haydn with solo trombone movements. But I don't know to what extent one can reasonably consider all of these as ''orchestral'' works.
Certainly an unusual tactic.
Or was it? Were trombone/vocal duets a thing at the time? Or was it just some crazy 11-year-old thing to do?
Arie with obbligato trombone were quite common in 18th century Austria. Mozart was certainly inspired by a lot of precedent. There is a great article by Stewart Carter in one of the early Historic Brass Society Journal (1990 or 1991 I believe). He already lists quite a few examples between the mid 1600's and mid 1700's, and that's 27 years ago, and limited only to Vienna...There are others beyond the time period he explored and from other locations (including Salzburg, where Mozart grew up, as you probably know).
If we're going to include those oratorios and operas with trombone obbligato arie, then we should probably also include the works by L.Mozart and M.Haydn with solo trombone movements. But I don't know to what extent one can reasonably consider all of these as ''orchestral'' works.