- Mozart’s final piano concerto, No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595, was completed in early 1791, though musicologists suspect that the composer began the work as early as 1788.1 Mozart performed the premiere in March that year, which would be his last public performance as a soloist.
- Compared to its immediate predecessors, Piano Concerto No. 27 is much more reserved and introverted. The piece is delicate and elegant. Mozart notably avoids extreme dynamic levels and plays with contrasting colors among the instruments, making the work particularly unique among his other piano concerti.2
Sources
- Cliff Eisen and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed December 30, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
- John Irving, Essay in accompanying booklet, Mozart: Complete Piano Concertos performed by Ronald Brautigam and the Kölner Akademie conducted by Michael Alexander Willens, BIS 2544, 2020, compact disc.
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