Mozart biography c minor concerto k 491
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Mozart – Concerto No. 24 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 491
17 Apr 2013
by Jeff Counts
Instrumentation: flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings.
Duration: 28 minutes in three movements.
THE COMPOSER – WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) – Mozart’s return to Vienna late in 1783 marked the beginning of his busiest professional period since childhood. Over the next 3 years he gave frequent performances, both publicly and privately, of his growing catalogue of piano concertos and was actually able to afford a posh lifestyle for a time. This fruitful interlude waned in 1786 and the cessation of keyboard activity occasioned a return to musikdrama composing for Mozart.
THE MUSIC – Mozart wrote 12 of his 27 piano concertos between 1784-1786. It was stretch of exceptional compositional fruktsamhet and it issued some of the most celebrated Classical exemplars of the form. The pace of creating and performing up to 4 new concertos per year meant th
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Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)
Concertante work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
| Piano Concerto in C minor | |
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A fortepiano from the period | |
| Catalogue | K. 491 |
| Style | Classical period |
| Composed | 1786 (1786): Vienna |
| Published | 1800 (1800) |
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The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491, is a concerto composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for keyboard (usually a piano or fortepiano) and orchestra. Mozart composed the concerto in the winter of 1785–1786, finishing it on 24 March 1786, three weeks after completing his Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major. As he intended to perform the work himself, Mozart did not write out the soloist's part in full. The premiere was in early April 1786 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Chronologically, the work is the twentieth of Mozart's 23 original piano concertos.
The work is one of only two minor-keypiano concertos that Mozart composed, the other being the No.
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Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Born on 11 February 1946, Rudolf Buchbinder celebrated his 60th birthday
just two weeks after Mozart's 250th birthday - a happy coincidence of
landmark events that prompted the great Austrian pianist to present a
series of Mozart piano concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at
the 2006 Vienna Festival.
The works, recorded live at the Musikverein in Vienna on 7 May 2006,
represent the crème de la crème of Mozart's concerto output of the years
1784 to 1786. Mozart had arrived in Vienna in March 1781 to work as an
independent composer. In addition to seeking commissions from the Imperial
Court, he also held subscription concerts at various venues, including the
homes of the nobility. Mozart had to satisfy the needs of the fashionable
Viennese public by creating a steady flow of virtuoso arias, symphonies,
chamber music and piano concertos.
Between 1784 and 1786 he wrote no fewer than 12 piano concertos, many of
them unsurp