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Duo in Bb major for Violin & Viola No.2 KV424
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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.Mozart composed two Duos for violin and viola, No.1 in G major, KV423, and No.2 in Bb major, KV424. The close friendship between Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and Mozart is very famous. Mozart was very close to also Joseph’s younger brother, Michael Haydn (1737-1806). In 1783, Michael Haydn was ill and incapacitated to compose two Duos for violin and viola. He had finished four duos to order for the archbishop of Salzburg, however he the order was six. Mozart composed two inspired duos, KV423 and KV424, to save Michael Haydn.
Number. 2 (KV424) consists of the following three movements, I. Adagio - Allegro, II. Andante cantabile, III. Thema con variazioni: Andante grazioso.
When I played the viola part, I needed a score for the second movement. Viola player should know all the notes of violin part. Otherwise violinist could not sing freely. Our sheet music of the viola part is score-style (the second movement) which contains the violin part. The other parts contain enough cue-notes to help players.
Note: about 3rd beat of bar 7 in Viola part. In this score, tones are Es/D/Es/F/G/As/G/F according to Neue Mozart-Ausgabe by Bärenreiter-Verlag. There are the other performances based on the other music notes, E/D/E/F/G/A/G/F or Es/D/Es/F/G/A/G/F.
