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    Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491



    Born on 11 February 1946, Rudolf Buchbinder celebrated his sextionde birthday
    just two weeks after Mozart's 250th birthday - a happy coincidence of
    landmark events that prompted the great Austrian pianist to present a
    series of Mozart piano concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at
    the 2006 Vienna Festival.
    The works, recorded live at the Musikverein in Vienna on 7 May 2006,
    represent the crème dem la crème of Mozart's concerto output of the years
    1784 to 1786. Mozart had arrived in Vienna in March 1781 to work as an
    independent composer. In addition to seeking commissions from the Imperial
    Court, he also held subscription concerts at various venues, including the
    homes of the nobility. Mozart had to satisfy the needs of the fashionable
    Viennese public bygd creating a steady flow of virtuoso arias, symphonies,
    chamber music and piano concertos.
    Between 1784 and 1786 he wrote no fewer than 12 piano concertos, many of
    them unsurp

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    Mozart – Concerto No. 24 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 491

    17 Apr 2013

    by Jeff Counts

    Instrumentation: flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings.

    Duration: 28 minutes in three movements.

    THE COMPOSER – WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) – Mozart’s return to Vienna late in 1783 marked the beginning of his busiest professional period since childhood. Over the next 3 years he gave frequent performances, both publicly and privately, of his growing catalogue of piano concertos and was actually able to afford a posh lifestyle for a time. This fruitful interlude waned in 1786 and the cessation of keyboard activity occasioned a return to opera composing for Mozart.

    THE MUSIC – Mozart wrote 12 of his 27 piano concertos between 1784-1786. It was stretch of exceptional compositional fertility and it issued some of the most celebrated Classical exemplars of the form. The pace of creating and performing up to 4 new concertos per year meant th

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    Piano concerto no. 24 in C minor

    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.[1]

    The concerto has the following three movements:

    1. Allegro in C minor
    2. Larghetto in E-flat major
    3. Allegretto (Variations) in C minor

    It is scored for flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings. Of the Mozart piano concertos, this one has the most complete scoring.[2] (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.