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The first movement of the engaging Oboe Concerto in F Major, KV 293 was partially written out in full score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) at Mannheim in the year 1778. The orchestra calls for two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns in addition to the usual strings but with an additional viola part. The initial ritornello is complete. In addition, Mozart also laid out the oboe part of the first episode up, to but not including, the entrance of the second major theme.

Because Mozart left so much musical information, a reconstruction in ritornello-sonata form was feasible, and I undertook this task at the University of Massachusetts in 1985. An oboe-piano reduction of my work was published by Patrick McFarland a year later. Here in the Double Reed Archaeologist, I am making the full score and parts of my reconstruction available for the first time.

Needless to say, this concerto is a masterwork. Perhaps someday, the sketches of the remainder will surface so it may be fully completed. On the other hand, there is the possibility that Mozart was in the process of writing the work out in full score without any sketches.

For whom was this work composed? The celebrated oboist of the court of the Elector Palatine of the Rhine at Mannheim in 1778 was Friedrich Ramm (c. 1744-1811). When the court moved to Munich the following year, Ramm went along. In 1781 Mozart presented Ramm, now in Munich, with his fabulous Oboe Quartert KV 370.

For detailed information on my reconstruction of the first movement of Mozart's F-Major Oboe Concerto, the following may be consulted: Journal of the IDRS: No. 13 (1985), pp. 3-32.