Mozart - Grande Sonate in A Major, K. 581 (B-flat Clarinet and Piano)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Grande Sonate in A major, K. 581 for B-flat Clarinet and Piano, after the Clarinet Quintet. In the 25 years following Mozart’s death an enormous amount of his music was arranged and adapted for the insatiable appetite of the European musical public. Nearly every major work was arranged for piano four hand, even some of the operas were arranged for string quartet or other chamber scoring. The “Grande Sonate” for Clarinet and Piano, published by Artaria, is an early arrangement of a Mozart work of which no autograph exists. The editor, Christopher Hogwood, weaves together the patchwork of sources for the quintet, justifying this arrangement for clarinet and piano as a serious source for the work.

You can find the version for A Clarinet and Piano here: Mozart Grande Sonate (A Clarinet and Piano)

Instrumentation:

• Solo Clarinet (in B-flat)
• Piano