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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's concertos for piano and orchestra are numbered from 1 to 27. The first four numbered concertos and three unnumbered concertos are early works that are arrangements of keyboard sonatas by various contemporary composers. Concertos 7 and 10 are compositions for three and two pianos respectively.
We compare the best complete recorded cycles of all 27 of Mozart's sublime Piano Concertos. Discover more about the great composers and works with BBC Music.
Third movement, “Rondo,” of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K 482; from a 1947 recording featuring pianist Edwin Fischer. (more) Mozart’s fascination with the piano concerto parallels Europe’s interest in the piano itself.
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- Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No.2. This colossus of the piano repertoire topped the annual Classic FM Hall of Fame for the first time in 2001 and hasn’t strayed far since, reaching that No.1 spot an impressive eight times so far, since the chart began in 1996.
- Beethoven – Piano Concerto No.5 (‘Emperor’) We all know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case you absolutely can: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 absolutely lives up to its imperial nickname.
- Grieg – Piano Concerto in A minor. The great Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg only completed one piano concerto during his lifetime, and it has become one of the most recognised in the world (thanks, in part, to the iconic comedy sketch by Morecambe and Wise, and the late André Previn).
- Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No.2. Shostakovich himself downplayed this concerto, saying it had “no redeeming artistic merits”, but audiences have always begged to differ.
Joseph Leutgeb is the man in question and he played first horn in the Salzburg court orchestra before settling in Vienna in 1777 where he ran a cheesemonger’s shop. Between 1783 and 1787, Mozart completed three horn concertos. He began composing a fourth concerto, K412, during the last summer of his life but only succeeded in finishing the ...
Concerto for Horn no. 3 in E flat major. Concerto in E flat major. 1783. Time: 16'00. Buy sheetmusic for this work at SheetMusicPlus. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, K. 447 was completed between 1784 and 1787, during the Vienna Period [ 1]
The main melody of the third movement is reminiscent of the theme from the rondo of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 written in 1785. Discography. Given its duration (about 15 minutes), the Concerto is typically grouped with Mozart's other three for the instrument, in boxed sets of Mozart's concerti for wind instruments or even all his concerti.
