- Mozart composed this concerto, scored for three pianos and orchestra, in Salzburg in February 1776. A version also exists for two pianos.1
- Mozart composed this concerto for the Countess Maria Antonia Lodron and her two daughters,2 Maria Aloysia and Maria Josepha.3
- Mozart also wrote two Divertimenti to celebrate the Countess’s name day: K. 247 and 287.4
- The Lodrons’ Salzburg palace is now home to the Mozarteum University for Music and Performing Arts.
Sources
- Cliff Eisen and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 26, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
- Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 104.
- “Places of Interest: Lodron Primogeniture Palace: Mirabellplatz 1,” European Mozart Ways, accessed August 26, 2021, https://www.mozartways.com/content.php?m=2&lang=en&typ2=125&placedetail=1&m_id=0&id=0.
- Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 104.
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