{"id":2317,"date":"2014-07-21T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henle.de\/blog\/en\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2015-05-29T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:01:10","slug":"franz-xaver-comes-to-henle-on-the-170th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-franz-xaver-wolfgang-mozart-29-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2014\/07\/21\/franz-xaver-comes-to-henle-on-the-170th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-franz-xaver-wolfgang-mozart-29-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz Xaver comes to Henle: On the 170th anniversary of the death of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (29 July 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 1825 (Source: Wikimedia.org, Licence: PD)<\/p><\/div>\n

That Henle is a Mozart publisher should not come as news. Since 2011, however, we are doubly so. Our catalogue offers not only Wolfgang Amadeus Mo\u00adzart\u2019s great works for piano and chamber music as well as solo concertos, but since 2011, also Urtext editions of works by Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mo\u00adzart, youngest son of the celebrated WAM.<\/p>\n

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791\u20131844) was only four months old when his father died. High hopes were had of the offspring and everything was done to enable the progeny to follow in his father\u2019s footsteps. He received an excellent mu\u00adsi\u00adcal education and soon enough already called himself simply \u201cW. A. Mozart\u2019s son\u201d \u2013 a wrong decision, because it is hardly surprising that this legacy became more of a burden than an opportunity.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Today, we try to avoid the fatal historical error of meas\u00aduring the son\u2019s accomplishments by his father\u2019s work.\u00a0 Henle in this regard was also taking a chance on a come\u00adback when first publishing in 2011\/2012 all Franz Xaver Mozart\u2019s piano works in two volumes (HN 958<\/a> and 959<\/a>). We have set standards here and made possible a com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive and impartial evaluation of this music. The two volumes were edited by Karsten Nottelmann, who, with his catalogue of the works of Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (in: W. A. Mozart Sohn. Der Musiker und das Er\u00adbe des Vaters<\/em>, Kassel, etc., 2009<\/a>), first put scholarly engagement with this composer on a firm basis (Not\u00adtel\u00admann maintains, in addition, a separate website on the topic \u201cMozart, Son\u201d<\/a>). With the e-minor flute rondo<\/em>, Karsten Nottelmann published a third Henle Urtext edition in 2013 (HN 1180<\/a>), so that now all of this Mozart\u2019s important works are to be found in our catalogue.<\/p>\n