About this edition
Composed in Salzburg in April 1773 when Mozart was just seventeen, the Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major, K.207, stands as the earliest of his five celebrated violin concertos and offers a fascinating glimpse of the young composer at the threshold of mastery. The work bears the elegant galant style of its time yet already reveals Mozart's distinctive voice — particularly in the buoyant, dance-like finale and the lyrical Adagio, whose singing violin line prefigures the operatic eloquence that would mark his later concertos. Long overshadowed by its more famous siblings K.216, K.218, and K.219, K.207 rewards close study as the foundation upon which Mozart built his violin concerto style.
This edition reproduces the score published in 1877 by Breitkopf & Härtel of Leipzig as part of the monumental Mozarts Werke — the first complete critical edition of Mozart's works, issued between 1877 and 1883 under the general editorship of some of the leading German musicologists of the era. The concerto appears in Serie XII, Band 1, No. 1 (pp. 1–26), edited by the distinguished pianist, conductor, and Mozart scholar Ernst Rudorff (1840–1916), a co-founder of the Bach-Gesellschaft's later work and a respected editor whose careful textual scholarship set a benchmark for nineteenth-century critical editions. This foundational edition remains a touchstone reference consulted by performers and researchers to this day.
About this edition:
- Full orchestral score (solo violin with strings, two oboes, and two horns)
- Page size: 8.5 x 11 inches, printed for clarity and ease of reading
- Faithfully reproduced from a public domain historical source
- Published by Purple 4R Publishing
We're delighted to make this handsome historical edition available in an affordable, well-produced print format — bringing a foundational Mozart score within easy reach of conductors, violinists, chamber ensembles, students, and scholars who wish to study and perform this early masterpiece. The music itself is in the public domain and belongs to us all; our aim is simply to put a beautiful copy of it into your hands.
