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Old 08-01-2007, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote View Post
On the "difficulty scale" used in the Lemur catalogue, the Marcello and Vivaldi sonatas are 3.0-4.0, the Vanhal at 6.0 and the Misek E minor 8.8. His first concerto isn't quite as bad, and they give it a 6.5.
There is a Misek concerto ?

As for the difficulty rating... well I am not sure I personally agree with them. I put the Vanhal and most of those cello sonatas as a bit harder, but that might just be me personally.

Something to remember when dealing with our older concertos though is that they really are transcriptions almost. They were for a bass tuned much differently then what we use today (Viennese tuning). To get an idea of how different things were search youtube and you will find someone playing the Vanhal there in Viennese tuning. With that said the part written in D might be more authentic. I have never done much study with the manuscript, but you should feel free to add a few ornaments or change octaves if you feel it works better musically.
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