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tion to lead you and try many alternatives before committing something to paper. Don’t feel pressured to make it very long: although a mere flourish would be somewhat inadequate in this con text, refer to the “purposes of the cadenza” list to remind yourself why you will be playing it. If you need some help with the cadenza, ask a friend to listen. Most will give their honest opinion, as long as they know you genuinely want to improve things and that you Regarding the second movement, concentrate on the lyrical aspects. This movement does not need too extended of a cadenza, just enjoy your viola’s sonorities and refer to Stamitz’s own embellishments. For my cadenzas (see the sample score), I used Fuzeau’s reprint of two early editions, which do not call for a cadenza in the third movement. If you choose to write a cadenza for this movement, the rondo is just a bit of high jinks, so something short and witty would suffice, perhaps throwing in a minor version of the rondo theme for fun at some point but ending in high spirits! will not be wounded if an improvement is suggested!

Mozart, Leopold. A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing . 2nd ed. Translated by Editha Knocker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Stamitz, Karl. Concerto pour alto en ré major: editions originale de Haueisen et Heina . Courlay, France: Éditions J. M. Fuzeau, 1997. Tarling, Judy. Baroque String Playing for Ingenious Learners . St. Albans, UK: Corda Music, 2000. Annette Isserlis studied at the Royal College of Music, where she now teaches historical performance prac tice on Baroque and Classical viola, as well as at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. In addition to being a founding member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, she is co-principal viola for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s English Baroque Soloists, and with these and many other ensembles has traveled, recorded, and broadcast extensively. She participates in many chamber music concerts, regularly attends I M S Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, offers master classes at various institutions, serves as an invited speaker on panels dealing with musicology, and does music arranging and record-producing.

Good Luck!

Bibliography

Levin, Robert. Cadenzas to Mozart’s Violin Concertos . Vienna: Universal Edition, 1992.

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