Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • This concerto dates from Mozart’s disastrous trip to Paris in 1778. He came looking for work, found none (or at least none that suited him), and his mother, who was traveling with him, fell ill and died.1
  • Mozart was commissioned to write this concerto in April 1778 for the court of the Comte de Guînes. Mozart was never paid for the work.2
  • De Guînes requested this unusual instrumentation because he was an amateur flutist, and his daughter played the harp.3

Sources

  1. Cliff Eisen and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 13, 2022,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Cliff Eisen and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 13, 2022,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.

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