{"id":7815,"date":"2024-10-14T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/?p=7815"},"modified":"2024-10-14T08:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T06:28:24","slug":"the-elders-errors-tenaciously-persist-on-the-violin-solo-entry-in-mozarts-d-major-violin-concerto-k-218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2024\/10\/14\/the-elders-errors-tenaciously-persist-on-the-violin-solo-entry-in-mozarts-d-major-violin-concerto-k-218\/","title":{"rendered":"The elders\u2019 errors tenaciously persist. On the violin solo entry in Mozart\u2019s D-major Violin Concerto, K. 218"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mozart, Violin Concerto D-major, K. 218,
ed. by Ferdinand David,
A-Sm Rara 218\/5<\/p><\/div>\n

As Urtext editors, we could sometimes despair: we\u2019re offering the music world a reliable music text, but those for whom all our work is devoted go on ignoring the new findings in their playing and teaching.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d like an example? I recently heard a young, very talented Korean violinist play Mozart’s D-major Concerto, K. 218 (HN 680<\/a>). Apart from the fact that he unfortunately dispensed with the \u2018common sense\u2019 standard, at least in historically informed performance practice, of playing the tutti passages and conducting the orchestra as primarius<\/em>, we heard in detail all those little note errors and subjective editorial additions ultimately going back to Ferdinand David\u2019s first edition of 1865.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take the solo violin\u2019s entry in measure 42: our violinist is still not the only one who plays something like this \u2013 for the old errors persist:<\/p>\n

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Mozart, Violin Concerto D-major, K. 218, \u2018SOLO\u2019
(mm. 42ff.), first edition, Breitkopf & H\u00e4rtel, 1865,
ed. by Ferdinand David<\/p><\/div>\n

Short appoggiatura and forte<\/em> \u2013 He ultimately played the passage as we know it from David Oistrakh (though he couldn\u2019t match Oistrakh\u2019s tone and verve):<\/p>\n