"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
The autograph says only "Contra Basso" and there is no title in Mozart's hand ("Gran Partita" is in someone else's hand on the autograph). Indeed, the autograph has no title at all in Mozart's hand, so it's only from the generic plan that one can place it among the Serenades as a genre. But a contemporary report on a performance of the work says it was performed on "ein Contre-Violon", which would be contrabass (this from the forward in the NMA). [...]
This identification is strongly supported by the pizzicato markings in the part.
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