Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in B-flat Major, K. 269

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • This one-movement work was first performed in Salzburg in 1776.1
  • It is likely that Mozart himself performed as violin soloist in this work and in the other violin-concerto type pieces he wrote in Salzburg in this period. He was employed as Concertmaster for the Archbishop Colloredo (read more about that here)2
  • This piece may have been intended as an extra movement to swap into his violin concertos when desired.3

Sources

  1. 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.
  2. Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: Harper Collins, 1995), 102.
  3. Ibid.

Cut IDs

20242, 45405