{"id":2497,"date":"2014-12-08T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henle.de\/blog\/en\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2015-05-28T15:34:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:34:36","slug":"%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-all-so-wonderful%e2%80%9d-on-the-new-edition-of-mozart%e2%80%99s-string-quartets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2014\/12\/08\/%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-all-so-wonderful%e2%80%9d-on-the-new-edition-of-mozart%e2%80%99s-string-quartets\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s all so wonderful!\u201d On the new edition of Mozart\u2019s string quartets"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I began editorial work on a group of compositions that I have long been involved with and that I adore: Mozart\u2019s string quartets. G. Henle publishing house will publish them complete in my new Urtext editions (parts and scores). Appearing at the end of 2015 as the first fruits of this painstaking labour will be volume 4: the \u201cHoffmeister Quartet\u201d KV 499, as well as the three \u201cPrussian Quartets\u201d KV 575, 589 and 590. The rest of the string quartets in chronologically reverse order will then follow in the coming years. <\/p>\n

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KV 589, 2nd movement, from: NMA VIII\/20\/Abt. 1\/3: String Quartets vol. 3<\/p><\/div>\n

Until now I have always been of the opinion that my edition couldn\u2019t bring much of anything new, for highly commended and regarded worldwide are the music text of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe<\/em> [New Mozart Edition] and in its wake the practical editions of the B\u00e4renreiter publishing house. With good reason! \u00a0And yet in several places I am now already tripping over this edition\u2019s textual inaccuracies (and those of its antecedents). That\u2019s why I think it\u2019s worthwhile once again examining the sources very carefully. \u00a0A first favourable tasting?<\/p>\n

String Quartet in B-flat Major KV 589, 2nd<\/sup> movement: The dynamic marking \u201cmfp<\/em>\u201d in the famous cello solo at the beginning of this quartet\u2019s slow movement (and thereafter in the violin solo, and naturally also again in the reprise of both passages) is at the wrong spot in all previous editions. Please judge here for yourself:<\/p>\n

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Autograph manuscript KV 589, 2nd movement - source: British Library (Add MS 37765, f. 33r)<\/p><\/div>\n

In my opinion the \u201cmfp<\/em>\u201d in measures 5 (cello) and 13 (violin) is just not on the first beat, but is instead wonderfully, syncopatedly applied by Mozart<\/a> on the second beat. Are you with me here?
\nMy friend Valentin Erben<\/a> (cellist of the Alban Berg Quartet), to whom I recently, enthusiastically showed the spot, by all means concurred with my reading and commented, deeply stirred: \u201cIt\u2019s so fascinating how even such apparently small details can be significant.\u00a0 It\u2019s all so wonderful!\u201d<\/p>\n

So, please look forward with me to making many more such details more precise, to making the music text of Mozart\u2019s quartets even better than what we\u2019ve thus far already known it to be in modern print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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