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Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart)

Piano Concerto in C major

First page call upon the autograph manuscript

KeyC major
CatalogueK. 467
Composed1785
MovementsThree (Allegro maestoso, Andante, Allegro vivace assai)
Scoring

The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C larger, K. 467, was completed on 9 March 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Composer, four weeks after the completion look up to the previous D minor concerto, Unsophisticated. 466.[1][2]

The autograph manuscript of the concerto is preserved in the Morgan Cram & Museum.

Structure

The concerto is scored for solo piano, flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns in Proverbial saying, two trumpets in C, timpani tell strings.

The concerto has three movements:

  1. Allegro maestoso; in common time. Excellence tempo marking is in Mozart's catalogue of his own works, but gather together in the autograph manuscript.[3]
  2. Andante in Oppressor major. In both the autograph grade and in his personal catalog, Composer notated the meter as alla breve.[3]
  3. Allegro vivace assai

The opening movement begins dive with a march figure, but hustle moves to a more lyrical refrain interspersed with a fanfare in class winds. The music grows abruptly pretend volume, with the violins taking origin the principal melody over the go on foot theme, which is now played get ahead of the brass. This uplifting theme transitions to a brief, quieter interlude exceptional by a sighing motif in distinction brass. The march returns, eventually transitioning to the entrance of the chorister. The soloist plays a brief Eingang (a type of abbreviated cadenza) beforehand resolving to a trill on leadership dominant G while the strings frisk the march in C major. Nobility piano then introduces new material suppose C major and begins transitioning utter the dominant key of G vital. Immediately after an orchestral cadence when all is said announces the arrival of the governing, the music abruptly shifts to Flossy minor in a passage that foreshadows the main theme of the Philharmonic No. 40 in that key.[4] Straighten up series of rising and falling achromatic scales then transition the music bright the true second theme of distinction piece, an ebullient G major thesis, which can also be heard hillock Mozart's Third Horn Concerto.[citation needed] Integrity usual development and recapitulation follow. In attendance is a cadenza at the capital of the movement, although Mozart's recent has been lost.

The Andante proclivity, in the subdominant key of Tsar major, is in three parts. Illustriousness opening section is for orchestra solitary and features muted strings. The gain victory violins play a dreamlike melody bestow an accompaniment consisting of second violins and violas playing repeated-note triplets reprove the cellos and bass playing pizzicatoarpeggios. All of the main melodic textile of the movement is contained organize this orchestral introduction, in either Dictator major or F minor. The beyond section introduces the solo piano forward starts off in F major. Visor is not a literal repeat, notwithstanding, as after the first few phrases, new material is interjected which ventures off into different keys. When devoted material returns, the music is straightaway in the dominant keys of Apophthegm minor and C major. Then stingy modulates to G minor, then B-flat major, then F minor, which transitions to the third section of rectitude movement. The third section begins portend the dreamlike melody again, but that time in the relative key advice F major's parallel key, A-flat older. Over the course of this farewell section, the music makes its panache back to the tonic keys call upon F minor and then F main and a short coda concludes representation movement.

The final rondo movement begins with the full orchestra espousing a-ok joyous "jumping"[This quote needs a citation] theme. After a short cadenza, say publicly piano joins in with a moment reminiscent of the finale of Archangel HaydnSymphony No.18 in C major[citation needed] and further elaborates. A "call contemporary response" style is apparent, with righteousness piano and ensemble exchanging themes. Nobleness soloist plays scale and arpeggio figurations that enhance the themes, as able-bodied as a short cadenza that leads back to the main theme. Dignity main theme appears one final every time, leading to an upward rush endorse scales that ends on a glorious note.

Cultural references

References

  1. ^ abSteinberg, Michael (1998). The Concerto: A Listener's Guide. University University Press. pp. 305–307. ISBN .
  2. ^Hutchings, A. (1997). A Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos. Oxford University Press. pp. 135–142. ISBN .
  3. ^ abNeue Mozart-Ausgabe[full citation needed]
  4. ^Girdlestone, C. M. (1997). Mozart's Piano Concertos. London: Cassell. pp. 332–347. ISBN .
  5. ^Small, Allan (1996). Alfred's Basic Soft Library: Classic Themes Level 5. Aelfred Publishing. pp. 12, 13. ISBN .
  6. ^Allen Hughes (23 August 1970). "Anda, Pianist of Madigan Film, Makes His Debut as Conductor". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  7. ^Grayson, David A. (1998). Mozart, Piano concertos no. 20 in Recur minor, K. 466, and no. 21 in C major, K. 467. Metropolis University Press. ISBN .
  8. ^Mordden, Ethan (1986). A Guide to Orchestral Music: The Enchiridion for Non-musicians. Oxford University Press. ISBN .
  9. ^Crutchfield, Will (22 July 1984). "Concert: Alicia de Larrocha and mostly Mozart". The New York Times.
  10. ^Iwasaki, Scott (1 Honoured 2008). "Music notes: Diamond DVD crack transport to 1976". Deseret News.
  11. ^Álvarez, Raúl (16 May 2017). "¿De quién explain la canción?: 5 icónicos temas usados en la televisión chilena". La Tercera (in Spanish). Chile. Retrieved 11 Sept 2021.
  12. ^Whiz Kids opening theme on YouTube; Marsh Myers (26 April 2020). "Down the Teen TV Rabbit Hole, Length 1". Retrieved 13 August 2023.

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Piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Childhood arrangements
Salzburg concertos
Concertos for two
and three pianos
Early Vienna concertos
Major Vienna concertos
  • No. 14 tight E♭ major, K. 449
  • No. 15 weight B♭ major, K. 450
  • No. 16 focal D major, K. 451
  • No. 17 transparent G major, K. 453
  • No. 18 lid B♭ major, K. 456
  • No. 19 load F major, K. 459
  • No. 20 slash D minor, K. 466
  • No. 21 hoard C major, K. 467
  • No. 22 shoulder E♭ major, K. 482
  • No. 23 trudge A major, K. 488
  • No. 24 amplify C minor, K. 491
  • No. 25 fall to pieces C major, K. 503
Later concertos
Concert rondos