Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major, K. 449

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Written in 1784, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major was just one of six piano concertos that the composer composed that year. Newly established in Vienna, Mozart was making a name for himself as a pianist and subsequently sought to capitalize on that popularity.1
  • Piano Concerto No. 14 is one of two concertos that Mozart wrote for one of his talented pupils, Barbara (Babette) von Ployer.2
  • This concerto differs from others written around the same time in that the orchestration is notably smaller and more intimate.3

Sources

  1. Robert Spaethling, Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000), 363.
  2. Robert Spaethling, Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000), 371.
  3. Robert Spaethling, Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000), 369.

Cut IDs

40639 17752 20910 24162 18370