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The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: Double-A on Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:02

Title: Johann Benjamin Gross, Cello Concerto op. 14
Post by: Double-A on Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:02
This started with my desire to transcribe an orchestral work for a change and to see if I am up to the challenge.  I chose this concerto because the parts of the first edition were available complete on IMSLP and because I have come to appreciate this composer.
The score is now finished and can be viewed here (http://imslp.org/wiki/Cello_Concerto_in_the_form_of_a_Concertino,_Op.14_(Gross,_Johann_Benjamin)).  There is also set of parts going along with the score.  The piano reduction will follow shortly.

I decided also to post a computer generated sound track (https://soundcloud.com/user-448737258/johann-benjamin-gross-1809-1848-cello-concerto-op-15)--a recording won't be available any time soon so this is the best acoustic representation presently available.  There was an attempt to achieve something in the neighborhood of "balance"; one could tinker endlessly with these files but time is limited and it is the way it is.

The piece strikes me as worth listening to (if we had a recording that is).  It is titled on the title page of the first--presumably only--edition (Breitkopf & Härtel, ca. 1832):  Concerto en forme de Concertino pour Violoncell avec l'Accompagnement de l'Orchestre ou du Piano.  The three movements are played attacca, hence probably "en forme de concertino". 
Title: Re: Johann Benjamin Gross, Cello Concerto op. 14
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 16 March 2017, 21:56
Publication date probably 1833 or so, rather, I think- see http://www.hofmeister.rhul.ac.uk/2008/content/monatshefte/1833_09.html#hofm_1833_09_0068_14 (http://www.hofmeister.rhul.ac.uk/2008/content/monatshefte/1833_09.html#hofm_1833_09_0068_14).