Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)
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| Number: | 24 |
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| Köchel number: | 491 |
| Key: | C minor |
| Instrumentation: | Piano and orchestra |
| Date of composition: | completed 24th March 1786 |
The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the winter of 1785–86.
It has the following three movements:
- Allegro in C minor
- Larghetto in E flat major
- Allegretto (Variations) in C minor
It is scored for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani and strings. Of the Mozart piano concertos this one has the most complete scoring. It is the only one scored for both oboes and clarinets. It is also the only late Mozart piano concerto in which the soloist plays after the cadenza in the first movement, here adorning an orchestral argument based on the extremely chromatic opening theme of the work with arpeggios, all the way through to the quiet close.
It has long been considered to be one of Mozart's greatest works. Arthur Hutchings considered it to be the most "concerted" of all the concertos (ie the most integrated); Girdlestone also effectively claims it as the greatest; and there is the unsubstantiated report that Beethoven told his pupil Ries that he (Beethoven) would never be able to think of a melody as great as a certain one in the third movement.
[edit] References
- Girdlestone, C. M. Mozart's Piano Concertos. Cassell, London.
- Hutchings, A. A Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos, Oxford University Press.
- Mozart, W. A. Piano Concertos Nos. 23-27 in full score. Dover Publications, New York.
- Tovey, D. F. Essays in musical analysis, volume 3, Concertos. Oxford University Press.
[edit] External links
- Critical commentary by Steven Ledbetter
- BBC Discovering Music (browse for .ram file for this work)
| Piano Concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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| Childhood Arrangements: No. 1 F Major K. 37 | No. 2 B flat Major K. 39 | No. 3 D Major K. 40 | No 4 G Major K. 41 |
| Salzburg Concertos: No. 5 D Major K. 175 | No. 6 B flat Major K. 238 | No. 8 C Major K. 246 | No. 9 E flat Major K. 271 "Jeunehomme" |
| Concertos for Multiple Pianos: No. 7 F Major K. 242 for 3 pianos | No. 10 E flat Major K. 365 for 2 pianos |
| Early Vienna Concertos: No. 11 F Major K. 413 | No. 12 A Major K. 414 | No. 13 C Major K. 415 |
| Major Vienna Concertos: No. 14 E flat Major K. 449 | No. 15 B flat Major K. 450 | No. 16 D Major K. 451 | No. 17 G Major K. 453 | No. 18 B flat Major K. 456 | No. 19 F Major K. 459 | No. 20 D Minor K. 466 | No. 21 C Major K. 467 | No. 22 E flat Major K. 482 | No. 23 A Major K. 488 | No. 24 C Minor K. 491 | No. 25 C Major K. 503 |
| Later Concertos: No. 26 D Major K. 537 "Coronation" | No. 27 B flat Major K. 595 |
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