Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 7, 10 And 15

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Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099521024

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 -1791)Piano Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 450 Piano Concerto in F Major, K. 242 'Lodron' Piano Concerto in E Flat Major, K. 365The solo concerto had become, during the eighteenth century, animportant vehicle for composer-performers, a form of music that had developed from thework of Johann Sebastian Bach, through his much admired sons Carl Philipp Emanuel andJohann Christian, to provide a happy synthesis of solo and orchestral performance. Mozartw rote his first numbered piano concertos, arrangements derived from other composers, in1767, undertaking further arrangements from Johann Christian Bach a few years later. Hisfirst attempt at writing a concerto, however, had been at the age of four or five,described by a friend of the family as a smudge of notes, although, his father claimed,very correctly composed. In Salzburg as an adolescent Mozart wrote half a dozen pianoconcertos, the last of these for two pianos after his return from Paris. The remainingseventeen piano concertos were written in Vienna, principally for his own use in thesubscription concerts that he organised there during the last decade of his life.The second half of the eighteenth century also broughtconsiderable changes in keyboard instruments, as the harpsichord was gradually supersededby the fortepiano or pianoforte, with its hammer action, an instrument capable of dynamicnuances impossible on the older instrument, while the hammer-action clavichord from whichthe piano developed had too little carrying power for public performance. The instrumentsMozart had in Vienna, by the best contemporary makers, had a lighter touch than the modernpiano, with action and leather-padded hammers that made greater delicacy of articulationpossible, among other differences. They seem well suited to Mozart's own style of playing,by comparison with which the later virtuosity of Beethoven seemed to some contemporariesrough and harsh.In February 1784 Mozart began to keep a list of hiscompositions, the first entry in his catalogue the Eflat major Piano Concerto, K. 449, and the autograph carries the same date, 9thFebruary. The Concerto in B flat, K. 450, isentered as completed on 15th March and the Concerto inD major, K. 451, under 22nd March.The B flat Concerto, K.450,shares its opening theme between wind instruments and strings, the soloist capping theorchestral exposition with a show of dexterity before proceeding to his own version of theprincipal theme and a solo part that makes use of the widest range of the keyboard. Thereis an E flat major slow movement which allows the soloist further opportunity for lyricalbrilliance in variations on the theme, and a final rondo based on a cheerful principaltheme.The Concerto in F, K. 242,known sometimes as the Lodron Concerto, was written in February 1776 and designed forCountess Antonia Lodron and her daughters Aloisia and Josepha, with due allowance, in theoriginal version, for the limited technique of the younger girl. Mozart
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