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Follow on Google News | Mozart's "Sonata in E minor" transcribed for Clarinet in ANoteworthy Sheet Music has just published a superb transcription by John W. Pratt of Mozart's K.304, one of the composer's seven "Mannheim" violin sonatas, for A-Clarinet.
As noted in John W. Pratt's foreword to the new Noteworthy Sheet Music edition of his clarinet transcription, the Sonata in E minor, K.304, belongs to Mozart's second group of violin sonatas, the seven "Mannheim" sonatas of 1778, which were begun in Mannheim. Mozart's works in minor keys are rare and special: consider his Symphony No.40 and the G-minor quintet. K.304, his only work in E minor, and the piano sonata in A minor, K.310, were written the summer that his mother died, an association often noted and the inspiration for the cover image (now in the public domain) of NSM's K.304 clarinet edition, a "Portrait of Anna Maria Mozart", mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by Rosa Hagenauer-Barducci. K.304 epitomizes Mozart's ability to achieve great power with spare means. The violin part rarely makes significant use of double stops and is in general well suited to a wind instrument. Previously, Mr. Pratt created a transcription of the Sonata in E minor for alto flute in G, also published by NSM, and now he offers his excellent arrangement for clarinet in A. Note that the Pratt transcription provides the advantage of staying in Mozart's key, and that the edition includes the A-clarinet part only. The clarinet part works perfectly with the piano part in Mozart's original score for piano and violin, which is in the public domain and readily available free of charge on imslp.org. For additional information about the seven Mozart Mannheim sonatas and Mr. Pratt's previous transcriptions of them for alto flute, please read his article Mozart's Mannheim Sonatas (https://www.noteworthysheetmusic.com/ Click the following link to be transferred to the listing for the clarinet transcription of Mozart's Sonata in E minor, K.304, on the Noteworthy Sheet Music website, where you will find pricing and additional information about the piece: https://www.noteworthysheetmusic.com/ End
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