A Musical Joke K522, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 2 Horns and Srings. String Parts

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A Musical Joke K. 522 for 2 Horns in F and Strings
Felix Loy (Editor)

Set of strings (3.3.2.2), Urtext Edition, paperbound
Chamber Orchestra
Pages 104 (36+36+16+16), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm
Weight 705 g
HN 3432 · ISMN 979-0-2018-3432-0

Further editions of this title:
Urtext Edition, paperbound 
Set of strings (3.3.2.2), Urtext Edition, paperbound
Violin 1, Urtext Edition, paperbound
Violin 2, Urtext Edition, paperbound
Viola, Urtext Edition, paperbound
Basso, Urtext Edition, paperbound
Conductor's score, Urtext Edition, paperbound
Study score (pocket score), Urtext Edition, paperbound

This Henle edition is full of mistakes! We can freely admit this, because the odd notes here all come from Mozart himself he consciously inserted them into his Musical Joke. In this amusing and mischievous piece, Mozart does not chiefly parody musicians who play wrong notes (the later title Village Musicians was not his). Rather, in this chamber music joke he aims an angry side-swipe at dilettante composer-colleagues of his time, whose lack of imagination and artless compositional technique are here mercilessly demonstrated. A musical and intellectual delight for todays performers and audiences alike, now performable for the first time using a genuine Urtext quality edition based on the autograph in Berlin. With the present edition for chamber orchestra, the joke is not limited in terms of the scoring ensembles made up of soloists can play from the sextet edition HN 1281.