Contretanz "La Bataille," K. 535

If you've ever tried to program this piece, you've run into the same wall: IMSLP has the score, but no parts. What you can find otherwise are re-orchestrated versions that quietly rewrite Mozart's instrumentation to make it easier to put on a stand. So you're left with two bad options — copy parts out of an old score by hand, or play someone else's arrangement and call it Mozart. This edition solves that. It's a fresh engraving of K. 535 that stays faithful to the original scoring, with clean, readable parts and marked measure numbers for modern players.

• •Faithful to the original. No re-orchestration, no reassigned lines, no "modernized" instrumentation. Mozart's scoring as written.
• •Clarinet parts in both C and B-flat. The original C parts are engraved as Mozart wrote them, plus transposed B-flat parts for players on modern instruments.
• •Trumpet parts in both C and B-flat. The "Clarino" part is engraved for Trumpet in C and Trumpet in B-flat.
• •"Trommel" identified and notated as Snare Drum. The original notates it in bass clef, which is a period convention rather than a pitch indication. Here it sits on a modern single-line staff, so the percussionist reads what they actually play.
• •Newly engraved throughout. Clean, legible, current notation practice with marked measure numbers — not a scan of an 18th-century plate.
• •Score and individual parts. Everything you need to rehearse and perform, ready to print.

Instruments: Piccolo · Clarinet · Bassoon · Trumpet · Snare Drum · Violin · Cello · Double Bass · Advanced level