- Mozart completed this concerto on December 16, 1785, in Vienna.1
- Mozart probably performed this concerto for the first time at a concert on December 23, 1785, at Vienna’s Burgtheater.2
- The concert’s central feature was an oratorio (Esther) by Dittersdorf, but the program also advertised “a pianoforte concerto newly composed by W.A. Mozart,” and the timing of Mozart’s composition suggests that this was probably the concerto he played.
- In a letter dated Jan. 13, 1786, Leopold Mozart told Maria-Anna Mozart that the Andante of this concerto was so well-received at the premiere that Mozart had to repeat it.
Sources
- Cliff Eisen and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed February 10, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
- John Irving, Mozart’s Piano Concertos (London: Routledge, 2003), 228.
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