Concerto for Violin and Orchestra D major - František Benda (edited by Václav Luks)
The publication of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra D major is based on the manuscript score and parts stored at the Saxon Library in Dresden, which is the oldest existing source of the concerto whose autograph has not been preserved. The concerto was probably intended for a smaller ensemble: the setting and the instrumentation of the concerto correspond with the rather modest – as compared with Dresden – size of the Rheinsberg band.
The Dresdner transcription of the score in question, however, contains a feature typical of the period general practice in Dresden: The copyist left space in the score so that the setting could be supplemented with wind instruments; this space is taken up by French horn virtuoso parts written by an unknown hand. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra D major represents the 13th volume of the Thesaurus Antiquae Musicae historical series.
Other compositions by František Benda published in Czech Radio:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra C major
instrumentationvno solo, 2cor in D, vni I, vni II, vla, cemb [b.c.]descriptionscore, partspubl.NoR 196price580,- CZK