Violin Concertos
et Ouverture

The Violin Concerto in E major (Freeman 1/3/4, [E. 9a:E1]) is the first of the six concertos by Mysliveček that survive in a copy made in Vienna in the early 1770s.

Perhaps Mysliveček composed them for his artistic tour of central Europe in 1772. The concertos are among the most important contributions to the genre in their time. They served, among other things, as a model for Mozart, who was already familiar with them in 1773 and quoted one of them in his letter of 8 September 1773.

The Violin Concerto in A major (Freeman 1/3/5, [E. 9a:A1]) is the second of the six concertos by Mysliveček that survive in a copy made in Vienna in the early 1770s.

Perhaps Mysliveček composed them for his artistic tour of central Europe in 1772. The concertos are among the most important contributions to the genre in their time. They served, among other things, as a model for Mozart, who was already familiar with them in 1773 and quoted one of them in his letter of 8 September 1773.

Ouverture No. 2 in A is called Symphony in the catalogues of Josef Mysliveček’s works (Freeman 1/1/27, [E. 10:A2]).

William Napier published the work in London as the second in a collection of six overtures dedicated to Lord Cowper. Mysliveček probably composed these symphonies in Florence between 1770 and 1771.

It is one of his masterpieces of this kind. According to the Italian fashion of the time, they contain divided viola parts.