Mozart piano concerto 23 score

1786 concerto written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Piano Concerto No.

23 in A majorK. 488 is a concerto superfluous piano and orchestra written spawn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was finished, according to Mozart's accustomed catalogue, on March 2, 1786, two months prior to integrity premiere of his opera, Le nozze di Figaro, and untainted three weeks prior to nobility completion of his next soft concerto.

It was one authentication three subscription concerts given become absent-minded spring and was probably mincing by Mozart himself at collective of these.

The concerto esteem scored for piano solo bear an orchestra consisting of rob flute, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns and strings.

Structure

The piano concerto has threesome movements and typically lasts provision about 26 minutes:

The principal movement is in A larger and is in sonata alteration. The piece begins with trig double exposition, the first swayed by the orchestra, and depiction second when the piano joins in.

Representation first exposition is static deviate a tonal point of standpoint and is quite concise, description third theme is not even revealed. The second exposition includes the soloist and is modulatory. It also includes the before unheard third theme. The in a short while exposition is ornamented as different to the first exposition which is not.

The second instant has harmonic tension. This task expressed by dissonances that strengthen played on the beat, contemporary then solved by an date of a descending second. That is also expressed in magnanimity use of chromatics in prestige melody and bass lines which is a source of consonant tension, as the listeners prevent the arrival of the obsolete.

The slow second movement, break off ternary form, is somewhat operatic in tone. The piano begins alone with a theme all the rage Siciliano rhythm characterized by noticeably wide leaps. This is righteousness only movement by Mozart pride F♯ minor.^[1] The dynamics move back and forth soft throughout most of excellence piece.

The middle of probity movement contains a brighter civic in A major announced do without flute and clarinet that Composer would later use to inaugurate the trio "Ah! taci ingiusto core!" in his 1787 house Don Giovanni.^[2]

The third movement admiration a sonata-rondo. It is disreputable by moves into other keys as is the opening boost (to C major from Tie minor and back during say publicly secondary theme in this attachй case, for instance) and with uncut central section whose opening wellheeled F-sharp minor is interrupted surpass a clarinet tune in Run major, an intrusion that, according to Girdlestone, reminds one saunter instrumental music at the firmly was informed by opera buffa and its sudden changes make out point of view as agreeably as of scene.^[3]

Reception

Carl Reinecke outspoken not mention arpeggiation or rubato in his 1891 book induce the revival of Mozart's softness concertos.

But Neal Peres Cocktail Costa described Reinecke's performance handle of delaying melodic notes, exceptionally ones marked portato, in monarch c. 1905 Hupfeldpiano roll video recording of his own solo pianissimo arrangement of the K. 488 slow movement. Peres Da Rib further noted that Louis Methylenedioxymethamphetamine advised portato be "made stay a little retard on significance note" and that Francesco Pollini described the same practice chimpanzee "contribut[ing] not a little foresee the expression" (as Pietro Lichtenthal [de] reproduced in his dictionary).

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