Antonio Rosetti (Rösler, Franz Anton)

Concerto G Major Murray C23

F.A. Rössler (Antonio Rosetti), a Bohemian by birth, worked as court music director in Ludwigslust/Mecklenburg. He wrote 14 flute concertos altogether the most important of which is the concerto G major, Op. 14. The expanded head movement combines the sonata form with the ritornello technique of the concerto grosso. Right at the beginning, the basses of the 'Mannheimer-Walzermotiv' make it clear that Rössler knows how to use effectively the orchestral technique of his time. Despite all motivic and thematic as well as harmonic abundance, -Rössler achieves in this concerto an almost natural musical unity.