Concerto in D Major for flute and orchestra K314 (285D) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A Practical Performing Edition representing a historically-based reconsideration of the galant and classic styles

The purpose of this publication of the D-Major Flute Concerto (K314/285d) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is to provide performers and scholars with an edition that 1. denotes the affective content included in the concerto, and 2. makes the relation between performance and analysis in accordance with late eighteenth-century writings understandable and accessible. The edition focuses on the interpretive possibilities a late eighteenth-century understanding of concerto structure can bring to contemporary performance. The primary theoretical source for the edition is Heinrich Christoph Koch’s (1749-1816) Versuch einer Anleitung zur Composition (1782, 1787, 1793.) The primary source for the score of this edition is the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Series V, Werkgruppe 14, Band 3 (Kassel: Barenreiter-Verlag, 1986). This edition includes a solo flute part with cadenzas, critical notes that support the scholarship, a piano reduction, and an annotated score of the concerto that outlines an analysis based on Koch’s work.

As a result of the scholarship, this edition presents a revised understanding of the intermingling of the Galant and Classical performance styles. The research suggests that when the concerto was written the Galant and Classical styles were less distinguishable from one another than what is, today, generally considered to have been the case. It is my hope that the edition will be a source of curiosity, delight and exploration for performers of any late eighteenth-century composition, for listeners, for any one interested in deepening their understanding and appreciation of the Galant and Classical periods, and for historians in general.