Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in C Major, K. 373

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • This piece was composed in Vienna on April 2, 1781.1
  • This piece premiered April 8, 1781, in a concert at the home of Prince Rudolf Colloredo (father of Mozart’s soon-to-be ex-employer, Archbishop Colloredo). 
    • The soloist at the premiere was Antonio Brunetti, the leader of the Salzburg Court Orchestra. Brunetti is known to have performed Mozart’s violin concertos, too.
    • The concert also included Mozart’s Violin Sonata K. 379/373a, of which Mozart played the keyboard part.2

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), 241.

Cut IDs

20243, 20250, 40485, 41913, 45313, 49089, 49293, 49473