Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 |
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Composed: 1785 First Performed: February 11, 1785 Peak: -- Sales (in millions): -- Genre: classical > concerto > piano |
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Average Duration: 31:00 |
Rating: 4.675 out of 5.00 (average of 6 ratings)
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About the Work:“Mozart completed this work on February 10, 1785, and played the first performance the next evening in Vienna.” AM His father Leopold called it “a new, superb piano concerto by Wolfgang, which the copyist was still writing when we arrived.” AM He didn’t even have time to play the rondo because he was still revising copies of the orchestral parts. AM Leopold said, however, that “The concert was incomparable, the orchestra excellent.” AMThe work has since been hailed as a “trailblazing” work “that survived the neglect of so much of Mozart’s music during the nineteenth century.” AM “Beethoven, both smitten and influenced, played it publicly.” AM Mozart begins the piece by having the orchestra play a network of themes, ideas that define where the piece will go. The first piano entrance, which is one of the most famous in the concerto literature, glances at those themes while moving in a completely different and even more compelling direction.” TM “More than two centuries later it remains a miracle that the soloist never plays exactly what the orchestra sets forth in the exposition, despite a rock-solid sonata structure throughout.” AM “The second movement is a Romanza (B flat major, common time). Not to underrate Mozart’s incomparable genius in music before this, nothing had equaled the unity of expression achieved in 1785 and after.” AM “Mozart returns to D minor in the third movement (Allegro assai; alla breve). Until the coda, we hear one of Mozart’s rare rondos in a minor key. More precisely, it is an extended sonata-rondo (ABACDA, plus coda), since C is a development, with the reprise in section D.” AM |
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