The purpose of this publication of the D-Major Flute Concerto (K314/285d) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is to provide performers and scholars with an edition that 1. denotes the affective content included in the concerto, and 2. makes the relation between performance and analysis in accordance with late eighteenth-century writings understandable and accessible. The edition focuses on the interpretive possibilities a late eighteenth-century understanding of concerto structure can bring to contemporary performance. The primary theoretical source for the edition is Heinrich Christoph Koch’s (1749-1816) Versuch einer Anleitung zur Composition (1782, 1787, 1793.) The primary source for the score of this edition is the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Series V, Werkgruppe 14, Band 3 (Kassel: Barenreiter-Verlag, 1986). This edition includes a solo flute part with cadenzas, critical notes that support the scholarship, a piano reduction, and an annotated score of the concerto that outlines an analysis based on Koch’s work.

As a result of this approach, the performance indications included in this edition clarify and reinforce the historical proximity of the Galant and Classical styles. It is my hope that the edition will be used by performers of late eighteenth-century compositions and by those interested in deepening their understanding and appreciation of the Classical period.