2nd piano concerto (Mozart)

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The 2nd Piano Concerto in B flat major, KV 39 is an early 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

Mozart's 2nd Piano Concerto, like the preceding and the two following 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 2nd piano concerto KV 39 is based on sonata movements by the composers Hermann Friedrich Raupach and Johann Schobert . 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 early classical concert begins with an Allegro introducing two cheerful themes in B flat major . The solo piano then takes over this literally. A middle section, which although not yet as implementation can be referred to, yet going on thematically and processes the main theme of the ritornello . In contrast to the first piano concerto, Mozart has a regular recapitulation followed by a short solo cadenza .

The monothematic andante begins with a striding unison of the strings. The steady progressive accompaniment by pizzicati of the strings, in which the piano also participates with continuous chords of the left hand, is striking . The singing unfolds alternately in orchestra and solo piano.

The concluding Molto allegro is again a small rondo . The chorus theme is presented by the orchestra with a distinctive participation of the horns . The solo piano takes over immediately and leads into a short, vocal couplet . Here, the musical happening is moved to a minor minor. The return of the refrain is again in major. Again Mozart prescribes a small solo cadenza for the rondo, before the movement with the refrain theme fades away exuberantly.

Status

Before Mozart wrote his first own and fully valid piano concerto with the 5th piano concerto KV 175 in 1773 , a total of seven exercises and pasticci concerts were written. 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 pasticci concerts, these three works were not included in the count of the old Mozart edition, which differentiates between 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 2nd 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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