COMPOSER / AUTHOR: MYSLIVECEK, JOSEF
TITLE: CONCERTO FOR VIOLONCELLO AND ORCHESTRA IN C MAJOR

SCORING: ORCHESTRA
INSTRUMENTATION IN DETAIL: VIOLONCELLO SOLO, OBOE (2), HORN (2), VIOLIN (2), VIOLA, DOUBLE BASS
VOLUME / SERIES: BÄRENREITER URTEXT
EDITOR: SPURNÝ, VOJTECH
FOREWORD / INTRODUCTION: SPURNÝ, VOJTECH / JAMNÍK, TOMÁŠ
ARRANGER: JAMNÍK, TOMÁŠ / SPURNÝ, VOJTECH
PRODUCT FORMAT: PIANO REDUCTION, URTEXT EDITION
SCORING: VIOLONCELLO
REMARKS ON THE EDITION: WITH CADENZAS BY BORIS PERGAMENSCHIKOW
PUBLISHER: BÄRENREITER
BINDING: STAPLED
PRINT RUN: 1ST PRINTING 2025
LANGUAGES OF THE TEXT: CZECH, ENGLISH, GERMAN

DESCRIPTION:
-THE ONLY CONCERTO FOR VIOLONCELLO AND ORCHESTRA BY JOSEF MYSLIVECEK (1737–1781) WAS COMPOSED AROUND 1770. IT IS MOST LIKELY MYSLIVECEK‘S OWN ARRANGEMENT OF HIS VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2, WHICH HE PROBABLY WROTE FOR THE CELLIST ANTONIO VANDINI, WHO WAS IN PADUA DURING MYSLIVECEK‘S STAY THERE BETWEEN 1768 AND 1774. BECAUSE OF THE TRANSCRIPTION, THE CELLO PART IS OFTEN IN THE HIGHER REGISTERS AND IS QUITE DEMANDING. UNKNOWN FOR A LONG TIME, THIS WORK IS NOW ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CONCERTOS OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD WITHIN THE CELLO REPERTOIRE ALONGSIDE THE TWO HAYDN CONCERTOS.

-THIS URTEXT EDITION PRESENTS THE CONCERTO IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM FOR THE FIRST TIME. AS THE AUTOGRAPH IS LOST, EDITOR VOJTECH SPURNÝ HAS CHOSEN A CONTEMPORARY COPY OF THE PARTS INCLUDING THE SOLO PART AS HIS MAIN SOURCE. THIS COPY MUST HAVE BEEN MADE BEFORE 1800 AND CAN BE FOUND IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE GESELLSCHAFT DER MUSIKFREUNDE IN VIENNA. THE WELL-KNOWN CZECH CELLIST TOMÁŠ JAMNÍK HAS PROVIDED THE SOLO PART WITH NOTES ON PERIOD PERFORMANCE PRACTICE.

-“THIS NEW EDITION IS UP TO THE HIGH STANDARD WE EXPECT FROM BÄRENREITER. …THERE IS AN EXCELLENT PREFACE, IN WHICH WE LEARN THAT THE WORK WAS FIRST RECORDED IN 1972 BY BORIS PERGAMENSCHIKOW, WHO WROTE FOUR CADENZAS WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THIS EDITION. … THIS EXCELLENT EDITION IS A WELCOME COMPLEMENT TO THE RELATIVELY FEW KNOWN CLASSICAL CELLO CONCERTOS.”
-(MICHAEL O’LOGHLIN, AUSTA STRINGENDO DECEMBER 2025)

CONTENTS:
COMPOSER / AUTHOR: JAMNÍK, TOMÁŠ / SPURNÝ, VOJTECH
TITLE: PREDMLUVA

COMPOSER / AUTHOR: JAMNÍK, TOMÁŠ / SPURNÝ, VOJTECH
TITLE: PREFACE

COMPOSER / AUTHOR: JAMNÍK, TOMÁŠ / SPURNÝ, VOJTECH
TITLE: VORWORT

TITLE: I ALLEGRO MODERATO
TITLE: II GRAVE
TITLE: III TEMPO DI MENUETTO