Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)

Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)

The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed the concerto in the winter of 1785–1786 and completed the work on 24 March 1786. The premiere was on 7 April 1786 at the Burgtheater, Vienna. [cite journal | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0306-1078(198902)17%3A1%3C139%3APMABC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1 | last=Maunder | first=Richard | title=Correspondence: Performing Mozart and Beethoven Concertos | journal=Early Music | volume=17 | issue=1 | pages=139–140 | date=February 1989 | accessdate=2008-03-16]

The concerto has the following three movements:
#Allegro in C minor
#Larghetto in E-flat major
#Allegretto (Variations) in C minor

It is scored for flute, 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 is one of only two minor-key piano concertos (the other being No. 20 in D Minor), and one of only three concertos where the first movement is in 3/4 time (the others being No. 11 and No. 14). The whole performance lasts roughly 30 minutes.

Long considered to be one of Mozart's greatest works, Arthur Hutchings has described it to be the most "concerted" of all the concertos (i.e. the most integrated). Girdlestone has also effectively claimed it as the greatest. Ludwig van Beethoven took particular inspiration for his own music from this concerto. [cite journal | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4224(196507)46%3A3%3C285%3ACK4%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 | last=Kinderman | first=William | title=Reviews of Books: "Beethoven Forum, ii" (ed. by Christopher Reynolds, with Lewis Lockwood and James Webster) | journal=Music & Letters | volume=77 | issue=1 | pages=124–126 | date=1996 | accessdate=2008-03-16]

The work has obvious musical antecedents in Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 78, also in C minor and from which the Concerto's opening statement is drawn. Jonathan Stock has analysed in detail Mozart's use of woodwind timbre in the instrumentation of the concerto's slow movement. [cite journal | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4224(196507)46%3A3%3C285%3ACK4%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 | last=Stock | first=Jonathan P.J. | title=Orchestration as Structural Determinant: Mozart's Deployment of Woodwind Timbre in the Slow Movement of the C Minor Piano Concerto K. 491 | journal=Music & Letters | volume=78 | issue=3 | pages=210–219 | date=May 1997 | accessdate=2008-03-15 | doi=10.1093/ml/78.2.210] Chris Goertzen has mapped the structure of the slow movement. [cite journal | url=http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/75/2/148 | last=Goertzen | first=Chris | title=Compromises in Orchestration in Mozart's "Coronation" Concerto | journal=The Musical Quarterly | volume=75 | issue=2 | pages=148–173 | date=1991 | accessdate=2008-03-15 | doi=10.1093/mq/75.2.148]

The concerto was first published in parts in 1800. The manuscript of the concerto resided in the 1960's at the Royal College of Music. [cite journal | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4224(196507)46%3A3%3C285%3ACK4%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3 | last=F.W.S. | first= | title=Reviews of Music: "Concerto, K. 491" | journal=Music & Letters | volume=46 | issue=3 | pages=285–286 | date=July 1965 | accessdate=2008-03-15]

References

Sources

* 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.

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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/audioarchive.shtml BBC Discovering Music] (browse for .ram file for this work)


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