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Figure 13. A historically informed cadenza for the second movement of Carl Stamitz's Viola Concerto in D Major. The cadenza synthesizes principles derived from eighteenth-century treatises, Mozart's surviving concerto cadenzas, and stylistic features of Stamitz's concerto discussed throughout this article. Footnotes:

20 Kraus, The Complete Original Cadenzas to the Piano Concertos. 21 Mather, The Classical Woodwind Cadenza. 22 Kraus, The Complete Original Cadenzas to the Piano Concertos. 23 Kraus, The Complete Original Cadenzas to the Piano Concertos. 24 Mather, The Classical Woodwind Cadenza 25 Mather, The Classical Woodwind Cadenza, 16. 26 Cadenza notation (several measures) from the first and second movements of: Carl Stamitz, Viola Concerto in D Major ; Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Viola Concerto in D Major ; and Carl Friedrich Zelter, Viola Concerto in E-flat Major , score engraved by the author (2025). 27 Cadenza notation (several measures) from the first and second movements of: Carl Stamitz, Viola Concerto in D Major ; Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Viola Concerto in D Major ; and Carl Friedrich Zelter, Viola Concerto in E-flat Major , score engraved by the author (2025). 28 Kraus, The Complete Original Cadenzas to the Piano Concertos. 29 Carl Stamitz, Viola Concerto in D Major , first movement viola solo part. 30 Quantz, On Playing the Flute, 283. 31 Stamitz, Viola Concerto in D Major , first movement viola solo part, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 5 in D Major, K. 175 , cadenza passage, score engraved by the author (2025). 32 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 5 in D Major, K. 175 , cadenza passage, score engraved by the author (2025). 33 Excerpts (several measures) from the first movement solo parts of: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 5 in D Major, K. 175 , and Carl Stamitz, Viola Concerto in D Major , score engraved by the author (2025).

1 Karl Stamitz, Violakonzert Nr. 1 D-dur Viola concerto no. 1 in D major , ed. Norbert Gertsch, Annemarie Weibezahn, Johannes Umbreit, Robert D. Levin, and Jürgen Weber (München: G. Henle Verlag, 2003), preface, 2 Stamitz, Violakonzert Nr. 1. 3 Stamitz, Violakonzert Nr. 1. 4 Walter Kolneder, The Amadeus Book of the Violin: Construction, History, and Music , trans. Reinhard G. Pauly (Portland: Amadeus Press, 1998), 301-302. 5 Kolneder, The Amadeus Book . 6 Kolneder, The Amadeus Book 7 Johann Joachim Quantz, On Playing the Flute , trans. Edward R. Reilly (New York: Schirmer Books, 1966), 180. 8 Quantz, On Playing the Flute , 179; Kolneder, The Amadeus Book , 302. 9 Kolneder, The Amadeus Book. 10 Kolneder, The Amadeus Book , 303. 11 Quantz, On Playing the Flute , 179-186. 12 Kolneder, The Amadeus Book of the Violin , 303. 13 Quantz, On Playing the Flute, 179.

14 Quantz, On Playing the Flute , 179-186. 15 Quantz, On Playing the Flute , 179-186.

16 Quantz, On Playing the Flute. 17 Quantz, On Playing the Flute.

18 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lili Kraus, The Complete Original Cadenzas to the Piano Concertos (Alfred Music Publishing, 1985), foreword. 19 David Lasocki and Betty Bang Mather, The Classical Woodwind Cadenza: A Workbook (New York: McGinnis & Marx, 1978).

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