Joseph Küffner’s Serenade op. 4 for flute, viola and guitar is an interesting and attractive work in which the fourth and final movement is a Rondo in which passages marked Russe (in Russian style) alternate with passages marked Hongroise (in Hungarian style), the beginning of which you can see FREE here. It is presented here in re-engraved form, edited by Francesco Biraghi. It is one of three chamber works by Küffner which the Classico Terzetto Italiano in Milan recently recorded with Brilliant Classics, with Francesco Biraghi playing the guitar part. You can hear the whole of Küffner’s Serenade op. 4, played from this present edition, here in the first part of this video:
The Rondo with its Russe and Hongroise sections begins at 21:25.This edition has score and parts, re-engraved. This Serenade op. 4 by Küffner could be a useful piece for guitar students in a conservatory to play together with other musicians. The guitar part is mostly not hard.
This Serenade op. 4 by Küffner has not previously been published in a modern edition as far as we know.
We present this work here in a new modern re-engraved edition, score and parts, ready for performance, urtext and authentic, based strictly on the original edition with no modern elements or fingering introduced.
This edition includes a score and separate parts for flute or violin, viola, and guitar.
This edition of the Serenade op. 4 by Joseph Küffner is edited from the original edition: Serenade, op. 4, Offenbach s/M, chez J. André (plate number 3874),1817. Copy: Royal Library, Copenhagen.
Küffner life and music, by Francesco Biraghi.
Brian Jeffery
