1st piano concerto (Mozart)

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The 1st piano concerto in F major, KV 37 is the earliest piano concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . According to a different count, in which only the pure and completely Mozart piano concertos are counted, this concert is not listed.

Emergence

The first piano concerto by Mozart, like the following three concerts, is one of the so-called pasticcio concerts . The name pasticcio refers to works whose music actually comes from other composers. Mozart arranged the music of various lesser-known composers for orchestra and solo piano. The 1st piano concerto KV 37 is based on sonata movements by the composers Leontzi Honauer (* around 1735–?), Hermann Friedrich Raupach and Johann Schobert . The basis of the middle movement, however, has not yet been determined. The work was probably written in 1767, when the composer was born in 1756. This explains the extremely simple implementation of the implementation for solo piano and orchestra and the practice piece character of the work.

To the music

The short work is of an early classical character. The sonata form , which is still in development, is used here according to the rules. The opening Allegro introduces two hilarious themes in F major. The solo piano begins its solo exposure directly with the first theme in a simple sentence. The second theme appears to have been changed slightly and partly moved to a minor. A short middle part, which is still not a proper implementation can be described, processes a new motif and leads quickly to reprise over. A solo cadenza is still missing in this first work.

The following andante opens with a contemplative minuet theme in the strings to the evenly swaying accompaniment of the orchestra. The solo piano immediately picks up on this thought and continues it. The following part of the two-part movement brings new dynamics to the musical scene. From here on, the previously indicated baroque metric of a minuet dominates .

The final Allegro is a small rondo . It begins with a fast refrain theme from the strings, which has a calmer ending. The solo piano picks up this immediately, also here in a very simple setting. A couplet brings a new thought, which, however, is characteristically based on the refrain. Shortly before the end, the movement surprises with a small solo cadenza .

Status

Before Mozart wrote his first own and fully valid piano concerto with the 5th piano concerto KV 175 in 1773 , he composed a total of seven practice works and pasticcio concerts. The first four piano concertos (KV 37, KV 39 , KV 40 and KV 41 ) were written before 1764 based on simple sonata movements by little-known composers. Three further concertos, KV 107, were modeled on somewhat more demanding sonatas by Johann Christian Bach . In contrast to the earliest pasticcio concertos, these three works were not included in the count of the old Mozart edition, which distinguishes 27 piano concertos. It was only about six years after composing these early works that Mozart conceived his first piano concerto. Here Mozart then reaches the first valid form of the modern piano concerto, which is not yet available in the 1st piano concerto.

literature

  • Harenberg concert guide. Harenberg Kommunikation, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-611-00535-5 .
  • Marius Flothuis: Mozart's Piano Concertos. CH Beck Wissen, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-41874-0 .

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