Mozart: Serenade for Thirteen Winds ("Gran Partita") KV361

arranged by C F G Schwenke for oboe, violin, viola, violoncello, and piano

Largo -- Allegro Molto
Menuetto
Adagio
Menuetto
Romanza
Thema con Varia
Allegro Molto

Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwenke (1767–1822) was a pupil of his father and of Kirnberger and Marpurg in Berlin. In 1789 he succeeded C P E Bach as municipal music director and cantor in Hamburg, and worked and taught there for the rest of his life. His arrangement of Mozart's well-known "Gran Partita" was published in 1815.

These mp3 files are taken from a live recording of a performance at the Aston Magna festival, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.