Piano Concerto No. 8 (Mozart)

Piano Concerto in C major
No. 8 "Lützow"
by W. A. Mozart
First page
KeyC major
CatalogueK. 246
Composed1776 (1776)
MovementsThree (Allegro, Andante, Rondeau. Tempo di Minuetto)
Scoring
  • Piano
  • orchestra

The Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major, K. 246, nicknamed "Lützow Concert", was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in April 1776 in the same year as the Haffner Serenade (K. 250).[1]

Composition

Countess Antonia Lützow, who was 25 or 26 years old at the time, was the second wife of Johann Nepomuk Gottfried Graf Lützow, the Commander of the Hohensalzburg Fortress.[2] Suitable as a work for beginners,[3] the solo work is not highly demanding, but it requires agility. Mozart played the concerto on his journey to Paris in Munich on 4 October 1777 and later in Mannheim, and used it for teaching. Three cadenzas by Mozart have survived.[4][5][6][7] Kitano concludes that the first two cadenzas, A and B in the Urtext edition, may have been written for the Countess Lützow herself to accommodate her limited technical ability, while cadenza C more resembles what Mozart might have played when he performed the work in Augsburg in 1777.[8]

It is also suggested Mozart wrote a violin concerto for Countess Lützow's brother Johann Rudolph Czernin (and almost the same age as Mozart).[9] Johann Rudolf, his sister and their father were in connection with Mozart at that time, while Mozart was in service of their uncle, Count Hieronymus von Colloredo.[10]

Structure

The concerto is scored for two oboes, two horns, solo piano and string section. It consists of three movements:

References

  1. ^ Hutchings, A. 1997. A Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816708-3
  2. ^ "Steamed Wildebeest Ensemble – concertos". Archived from the original on 1 October 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  3. ^ Marius Flothuis (2008) [1998]. Mozarts Klavierkonzerte: Ein musikalischer Werkführer (in German) (2nd ed.). C. H. Beck. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-406-56864-0.
  4. ^ Mozart, W. A. (1976). Wolff, Christoph (ed.). Band 2: Konzerte für ein oder mehrere Klaviere und Orchester mit Kadenzen [NMA V/15/2]. Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Serie V, Werkgruppe 15. Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag. pp. 26–27.
  5. ^ Robbins Landon, H. C. (1990) The Mozart Compendium. ISBN 90-439-0312-4 pb.
  6. ^ Critical report, Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
  7. ^ "Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 8 and 19 CD". Naxos. Archived from the original on 23 November 2008. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
  8. ^ Kitano, Hsuan Chang (16 May 2018). Improvisation in Mozart's keyboard music: a performer's approach to his Eingänge and cadenzas (D. Mus. dissertation). Indiana University. p. 296. hdl:2022/22120.
  9. ^ Mozartforum Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia by Cliff Eisen, Simon P. Keefe
  11. ^ Piano Concertos Nos. 7–10 in Full Score: With Mozart's Cadenzas, p. 8
  12. ^ Structural novelty and tradition in the early romantic piano concerto by Stephan D. Lindeman, p. 273
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