- Mozart completed this concerto in Vienna on March 15, 1784.
- This concerto premiered in a series of subscription concerts Mozart put on at a private Viennese performance hall, and at a musical academy event at Vienna’s Burgtheater. Mozart would have performed as the piano soloist at these events.
- This concerto is sometimes considered the beginning of a new, more complex period in Mozart’s oeuvre, when his works became longer, more challenging and more ambitious. The change may have been conscious: at the same time, Mozart began a thematic catalog of his compositions.1
Sources
- Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
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