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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Wunderkind" Sonatas Volume II for Piano and Violin (with Violoncello) K. 10-15
Editor: Wolf-Dieter Seiffert
Fingering and bowing for Violin: Benjamin Schmid
Fingering Piano: Ariane Haering
34.95 $
Urtext Edition, paperbound
with marked and unmarked string parts
Pages: 117 (IX, 55, 19, 19, 15), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm
Order no. HN 1078 · ISMN M-2018-1078-2
Leopold Mozart was only able to understand his son’s musical genius in terms of it being a God-given wonder: “That my boy […] knows all of this with his 8 years that could be expected of a man of forty years. In short: whoever has not seen or heard it, cannot believe it”. In 1764 Wolfgang composed six sonatas in London – possibly after the model of Johann Christian Bach’s “Opus 2” – that can either be played as piano trios, as violin sonatas or simply on the piano. “Royal” sources were consulted for the edition: the copy in the British Library bears the handwritten note: “This Volume belongs to the Queen 1788”.
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Contents
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Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) B flat major KV 10
Level of difficulty (Violin): easy (Level 3)Other titles with this level of difficulty » -
Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) G major KV 11
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Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) A major KV 12
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Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) F major KV 13
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Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) C major KV 14
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Violin Sonata (Wunderkind) B flat major KV 15
Level of difficulty (Violin): easy (Level 3)Other titles with this level of difficulty »
The levels of difficulty of the
music for violin published by G. Henle Publishers
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
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| easy | medium | difficult | ||||||
The levels of difficulty of the violin music published by G. Henle Publishers
| Level | Degree | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | easy | Beethoven, 6 German Dances WoO 42 |
| 2 | Beethoven, Rondo G major WoO 41 |
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| 3 | Mozart, Violin Sonata F major KV 547 |
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| 4 | medium | Haydn, Violin Concerto A major Hob. VIIa:3 |
| 5 | Bach, Violin Concerto a minor BWV 1041 |
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| 6 | Brahms, Violin Sonata G major op. 78 |
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| 7 | difficult | Paganini, No. 9 from Capricci op. 1 |
| 8 | Beethoven, Violin Concerto D major op. 61 |
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| 9 | Berg, Violin Concerto |
I have assigned all of the violin music in G. Henle Publishers' catalogue a level of difficulty, ranging from "very easy" to "very difficult". The model for this was the evaluation system with nine levels developed for Henle's piano catalogue by Rolf Koenen. Unlike the works for solo piano, I have decided against evaluations that lie between two levels (e.g. 4/5 or 7/8).
This kind of attempt will always be "relative" to some degree. While the work remains the work, what is relative is the technical and musical ability of the player. Let us take a look at Mozart, for example, from the perspective of an Arthur Grumiaux and from that of a very young pupil. It is clear to whom my levels of difficulty are addressed: to the pupils or their teacher. I have, of course, always endeavoured to objectively assess the purely technical level of difficulty. But everything "between the lines" is, of course, left up to the judgement of each individual musician. Depending on our abilities, we perceive the "difficulty" of a work for violin differently, yet with the same conviction.
At the start, categorizing violin literature into levels of difficulty from 1 to 9 seemed to carry a certain risk as well as being unknown territory, yet I have now gained a deep insight into all of the works for violin in G. Henle Publishers' catalogue.
Ernst Schliephake © 2013