- Mozart completed this concerto on December 4, 1786, in Vienna.1
- During 1784-6, Mozart had success presenting subscription concerts in various venues in Vienna. Between February 1784 and December 1786, Mozart composed twelve new piano concertos for use in these concerts. This concerto, K. 503, was the last of these.2
- Unfortunately, freelance concert opportunities for Mozart dried up somewhat at the end of 1786, and consequently he didn’t compose any more piano concertos for a couple of years.3
- It is likely that Mozart never got to perform this concerto in the 1786 concert season at all. He probably intended it for a series of four concerts planned for the Advent season at the casino (concert hall) at the Trattnerhof – but lack of documentary evidence for that series suggests that it was cancelled.4
- Fun fact: the Trattnerhof was a multiuse building built in Vienna in 1776. In addition to a concert hall, in also contained residential apartments, and Mozart his wife lived there for nine months in 1784.5
Sources
- Cliff Eisen and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 11, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
- Ibid.
- Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 304.
- Ibid,
- Eisen and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online.
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