{"product_id":"mozart-wa-andante-in-c-major-kv-315-285e-1","title":"Mozart, WA :: Andante in C major KV 315 (285e)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NameInDesc\"\u003eAndante in C major KV 315 (285e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ComposerInDesc\"\u003eMozart, WA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career Mozart had a special feeling for the wind instruments. Not only did he add a distinctive flavor to the wind band in his orchestral music indeed, his writing for winds became a defining and inimitable feature of his music he also wrote compositions for wind players in his circle of friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOddly, the only wind instrument he couldn t bear in a solo setting was the flute. Then again, as you know, I get quite put off whenever I have to write for an instrument I can t stand : thus the excuse he sent his father from Mannheim (letter of 14 February 1778), where he was staying at the home of the Wendlings, a family of Mannheim musicians. There Mozart made the acquaintance of a wealthy Dutchman (or, as he called him, an Indian ) named Ferdinand Dejean (1731 1797), who was also an amateur flautist, and agreed to give him three small, easy and brief little concertos and a couple of quattros for the flute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the commission was destined to remain incomplete: the only flute concertos we know from Mozart s pen are the Concerto in G major, K. 313 (285c), to which he later added the Andante in C major, K. 315 (285e), and his reworking of the Oboe Concerto in C major into the Flute Concerto in D major, K. 314 (285d). It thus transpired that Mozart received only 96 of the 200 gulden that Dejean had promised him, a fact acidly remarked upon in several of his father s letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Andante in C major, K. 315, resembles a serenade and seems especially well-suited to the limited technical skills of its patron. Mozart may have written it as an alternative to the more demanding slow movement of the Concerto in G major, K. 313.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarenreiter, as part of this authoritative performing edition, also supplies candenzas by Rachel Brown and Karl Engel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barenreiter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46967532585254,"sku":"9790006520022","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/3559\/5814\/products\/D009790006520022_d.jpg?v=1697490867","url":"https:\/\/www.flute4u.com\/products\/mozart-wa-andante-in-c-major-kv-315-285e-1","provider":"Carolyn Nussbaum Music Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}