Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Mozart composed this piano concerto in 1784, to perform during the Lenten concert season in Vienna in 1785. (Theaters were closed during Lent so there was more opportunity for instrumental music concerts).1
  • As is usual with his piano concertos, Mozart was the piano soloist at the premiere of this work.2
  • This concerto is sometimes known as the “Elvira Madigan” because its slow movement was used in the 1967 Swedish film, Elvira Madigan.3
  • In the opinion of Mozart’s father, Leopold Mozart, this concerto is “astonishingly difficult”4

Sources

  1. Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1995), 311. 
  2.  Michael Steinberg, The Concerto: A Listener’s Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 306.
  3.  Betsy Schwarm, “Elvira Madigan,” Encyclopædia Brittanica (October 1, 2019), accessed November 27, 2019, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Elvira-Madigan-by-Mozart.
  4. Ibid.

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