Piano Concerto No. 27 (Mozart)
Piano Concerto in B♭ major | |
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No. 27 | |
by W. A. Mozart | |
Key | B♭ major |
Catalogue | K. 595 |
Genre | Piano concerto |
Style | Classical period |
Performed | 1791 |
Movements | Allegro Larghetto Allegro |
Scoring |
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The Piano Concerto No. 27 in B♭ major, K. 595, is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's last piano concerto; it was first performed early in 1791, the year of his death.
History
The manuscript is dated 5 January 1791. However,
Premiere
The concerto may have been first performed at a concert on 4 March 1791 in Jahn's Hall by Mozart and the clarinetist Joseph Beer.[3] If so, this was Mozart's last appearance in a public concert,[3] as he fell ill in September 1791 and died on 5 December 1791. Another possibility is that it was premiered by Mozart's pupil Barbara Ployer on the occasion of a public concert at the Palais Auersperg in January 1791.[4]
Music
The work is scored for flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns in B-flat, solo piano and strings, which makes it thinner than Mozart's other late concertos, all of which except for No. 23 have trumpet and timpani.
It has three movements:
Although all three movements are in a
Another interesting characteristic of the work is its rather strong thematic integration of the movements, which would become ever more important in the nineteenth century.[citation needed] The principal theme of the Larghetto, for instance, is revived as the second theme of the final movement (in measure 65).[citation needed] The principal theme for the finale was also used in Mozart's song "Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling" (also called "Komm, lieber Mai"), K. 596, which immediately follows this concerto in the Köchel catalogue.
Mozart wrote down his cadenzas for the first and third movements.
Simon Keefe has discussed the concerto in detail, with emphasis on the distinctive character and experiments in style of the concerto compared to Mozart's other concerti in this genre.[1]
References
- ^ JSTOR 10.1525/jm.2001.18.4.658.
- JSTOR 940558.
- ^ a b Deutsch, Otto Erich (1965). Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 387.
- ^ Dexter Edge, "Mozart's Reception in Vienna 1787–1791", in Wolfgang Amadé Mozart: Essays on his Life and his Music, (Oxford, Clarendon 1996), p. 90
Further reading
- John A. Rice (n.d.), "A Scena in Haydn's Die belohnte Treue (La fedeltà premiata), the Larghetto of Mozart's Piano Concerto in B-flat, K. 595, and "Der Hölle Rache" – vie academia.edu
External links
- Konzert in B für Klavier und Orchester KV 595: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
- Piano Concerto No. 27: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project