- Mozart probably composed this single concerto movement around 1781.1
- Mozart wrote his horn and orchestra pieces not for a commission, but for the use of his friend Joseph Leutgeb, who played in the Salzburg court orchestra with Mozart’s father.2
- This is an unfinished piece, usually performed in reconstructions by editors. (The recording doesn’t say who reconstructed this version.) It was probably intended to be the final movement of an abandoned complete horn concerto.3
- Part of the reason this piece is incomplete is that Mozart’s son actually gave away pages from the manuscript for this piece as Mozart souvenirs.
Sources
- 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.
- Liner notes to Mozart; Works for Horn and Orchestra, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Michael Thompson, Naxos 8.503167, CD, 1998.
- Ibid.
Cut IDs
15194