Mysliwecek Konzert C major

Concerto for violoncello and orchestra, piano reduction with cadenzas by Boris Pergamenschtschikow, Urtext edition.

The only concerto for violoncello and orchestra by Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) was composed around 1770. It is most likely Myslivecek's own arrangement of his Violin Concerto No. 2, which he probably wrote for the cellist Antonio Vandini, who was in Padua during Myslivecek's stay in the same city between 1768 and 1774. Due to the transcription, the cello part is often in high registers and is quite demanding. Long unknown, the three-movement work is now one of the most important concertante works in the classical cello repertoire alongside the two Haydn concertos.

This Urtext edition makes the concerto available in its original form for the first time. As the autograph is lost, the editor Vojtech Spurný has chosen a contemporary copy of the parts, including the solo part, which must have been made before 1800 and is in the archives of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, as his main source. The well-known Czech cellist Tomáš Jamník has provided the solo part with notes on interpretation.