DESCRIPTION:
Leopold Mozart

Work: Trumpet Concerto in D-major (1762)

Mov.I: Andante 00:00
Mov.II: Allegro moderato 05:13

Trumpet: Niklas Eklund

Orchestra: Drottningholms Barockensemble

Conductor: Nils-Erik Sparf

Leopold Mozart's Trumpet Concerto in D major dates from 1762. It has only two movements and is scored for trumpet, two horns and strings. The introductory movement, an Andante, starts with a main theme, an ornamented scale, developing into sequences until the entry of the solo trumpet. There is no real second theme and the movement is like some kind of rodimentary sonata. In homophonic writing the highest part, generally the trumpet, dominatesal most completely with a more melodious solo line in the first movement and shorter melodies for the soloist in the second.

There are at the same time fanfare and signal themes, very much like those to be found in the contemporary sinfonia concertante. It is supposed that the concerto was written for the Salzburg court trompeter Johann Andreas Schachtner,a friend of the Mozart family, but it might equally have been written for some other trompeter in Salzburg, such as Caspar Köstler.