Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart)
Piano Concerto in C major | |
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No. 21 | |
by W. A. Mozart | |
Key | C major |
Catalogue | K. 467 |
Composed | 1785 |
Movements | Three (Allegro maestoso, Andante, Allegro vivace assai) |
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The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, was completed on 9 March 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, four weeks after the completion of the previous D minor concerto, K. 466.[1][2]
The autograph manuscript of the concerto is preserved in the Morgan Library & Museum.
Structure
The concerto is scored for solo piano, flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns in C, two trumpets in C, timpani and strings.
The concerto has three movements:
- Allegro maestoso; in common time. The tempo marking is in Mozart's catalog of his own works, but not in the autograph manuscript.[3]
- Andante in F major. In both the autograph score and in his personal catalog, Mozart notated the meter as alla breve.[3]
- Allegro vivace assai
The opening movement begins quietly with a march figure, but quickly moves to a more lyrical melody interspersed with a fanfare in the winds. The music grows abruptly in volume, with the violins taking up the principal melody over the march theme, which is now played by the brass. This uplifting theme transitions to a brief, quieter interlude distinguished by a sighing motif in the brass. The march returns, eventually transitioning to the entrance of the soloist. The soloist plays a brief Eingang (a type of abbreviated
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The final
Cultural references
- The second movement was featured in the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan,[1][5] using a recording by Géza Anda as the soloist.[6] As a result, the piece has become widely known as the Elvira Madigan concerto.[7][8][9]
- Neil Diamond's 1972 song "Song Sung Blue" was based on a theme from the andante movement of the concerto.[10]
- The second movement is used for the main theme of the weather program TV Tiempo of Televisión Nacional de Chile.[11]
- The opening theme of the 1983/84 TV series Whiz Kids is an electronic version adaptation of the concerto's first movement.[12]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-19-510330-0.
- ISBN 0-19-816708-3.
- ^ a b Neue Mozart-Ausgabe[full citation needed]
- ISBN 0-304-30043-8.
- ISBN 0-7390-0356-9.
- ^ Allen Hughes (23 August 1970). "Anda, Pianist of Madigan Film, Makes His Debut as Conductor". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-521-48475-6.
- ISBN 978-0-19-504041-8.
- ^ Crutchfield, Will (22 July 1984). "Concert: Alicia de Larrocha and mostly Mozart". The New York Times.
- ^ Iwasaki, Scott (1 August 2008). "Music notes: Diamond DVD is transport to 1976". Deseret News.
- ^ Álvarez, Raúl (16 May 2017). "¿De quién es la canción?: 5 icónicos temas usados en la televisión chilena". La Tercera (in Spanish). Chile. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- YouTube; Marsh Myers (26 April 2020). "Down the Teen TV Rabbit Hole, Part 1". Retrieved 13 August 2023.
External links
- Piano Concerto No. 21: Mozart's autograph manuscript in the Morgan Library & Museum
- Konzert in C KV 467: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
- Piano Concerto No. 21 (W. A. Mozart): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project