Mozart New Look
Subtitle: Petite Fantaisie pour Contrebasse et instruments à Vent sur la Sérénade de 'Don Giovanni'
General Info
Year: 1981
Duration: c. 2:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Schott
Cost: Score and Parts - €32.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
Contrabassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Double Bass
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
Little to no historical information is available regarding the inception of Françaix’s Mozart new-look. The composition is very short (less than three minutes in duration) and is composed for double bass solo with wind dectet accompaniment. It is unknown for whom (if anyone in particular) the double bass solo was originally composed. The musical material in Mozart new-look is based on the aria Deh, vieni alIa finestra from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. Françaix also quotes the aria Près des remparts de Seville from Act I of Bizet’s opera Carmen.
- Program Note by Temple University Wind Symphony: Chamber Winds concert program, 15 July 2015
Awards
- Mozart new-look has been recommended as interesting, serious and distinctive music by members of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE).
Media
- Audio CD: Mainz Wind Ensemble (Klaus Reiner Scholl, conductor) - 1993
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Indiana Wind Symphony (Carmel) (Charles Conrad, conductor) - 16 October 2021
- Lynn University (Boca Raton, Fla.) Wind Ensemble (Kenneth Amis, conductor) – 7 September 2019
- New England Conservatory (Boston, Mass.) Symphonic Winds (William Drury, conductor) – 28 February 2017
- Temple University (Philadelphia, Pa.) Chamber Winds (Emily Threinen, conductor; Michael Chaffin, double bass) – 15 July 2015 - WASBE Conference, San Jose, Calif.
Works for Winds by This Composer
- 9 Pièces Caractéristiques (1974)
- Célestes Schubertiades (1996)
- Concerto pour trombone et 10 instruments à vent (1983)
- Cortège burlesque (1989)
- Divertissement (1947)
- Élégie pour 10 instruments à vent (1990)
- Hommage à l’Ami Papageno (1984)
- Huit danses exotiques (1981)
- Huit pièces pittoresques (1984)
- L'heure du berger (1972)
- L'Horloge de Flore (arr. Watson) (1959/2018)
- Le gay Paris (1974)
- Mozart New Look (1981)
- Musique pour faire plaisir (1984)
- Neuf pièces caractéristiques (1973)
- Notturno e Divertimento (1990)
- Ode à la Liberté (1985)
- Onze variations sur un thème de Haydn (1982)
- Petite valse européenne (1979)
- Petit quatuor pour clarinettes et cor de basset (1992)
- Quadruple concerto (1935)
- Quasi improvvisando (1978)
- Quintette à vent n° 1 (1948)
- Quintette à vent n° 2 (1987)
- Sept Danses (1971)
- Sixtuor (1991)
- Suite pour quatuor de saxophones (1990)
- Trois écossaises et variations sur un air populaire allemand (1989)
- Trois marches militaires (1987)
- Variations sur un thème plaisant (1976)
- Wind Quintet No. 1. See: Quintette à vent n° 1
- Wind Quintet No. 2. See: Quintette à vent n° 2
Resources
- Françaix, J.; Mozart, W. (1983). Mozart New-Look : Petite Fantaisie pour Contrebasse et Instruments À Vent sur la Sérénade de "Don Giovanni" [score]. Schott: Mainz.