Frank Martin
15.09.1890—21.11.1974

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Frank Martin
Ouverture en hommage à Mozart | for orchestra

Work Details
Year of composition: 1956
Scored for: for orchestra
Composer: Frank Martin
Instrumentation: 3 2 2 2 - 2 2 0 0 - timp, str(12 12 8 8 6)
Instrumentation details: piccolo; 1st flute; 2nd flute; 1st oboe; 2nd oboe; 1st clarinet in Bb; 2nd clarinet in Bb; 1st bassoon; 2nd bassoon; 1st horn in F; 2nd horn in F; 1st trumpet in C; 2nd trumpet in C; timpani; violin I(12); violin II(12); viola(8); violoncello(8); contrabass(6)
Dedication: Dédiée à Monsieur René Dovaz, Directeur du Studio de Radio-Genève

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Work Introduction

This overture was commissioned by Radio Geneva for a joint international broadcast planned for December 1956 to mark the end of the Mozart bicentenary year.

The composer had no intention of making this the occasion for any kind of pastiche of Mozart: instead, he tried to express, in his own [...]