6th piano concerto (Mozart)

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The 6th Piano Concerto in B flat major, KV 238 , is a piano concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . According to other numbers, it is his second piano concerto.

Emergence

Like the 7th and 8th piano concertos , the work belongs to the group of the first Salzburg concerts, which were written in the first half of 1776. About two years after completing the 5th piano concerto , Mozart wrote the work down in January 1776 in just a few days. It was probably intended for a smaller audience. This concert is clearly shaped by Mozart's experiences that he was able to gain in the violin concertos that were written shortly before. The concert already shows great individual features of the compositional style.

To the music

1st movement: Allegro aperto

Despite the Allegro name, there is a subdued and now and then wistful mood about the movement. This is an early lighting up of the so-called "smile under tears" that later emerged in some works. This describes the ostensibly happy and exuberant music of Mozart, which, however, contains other sensations in a depth dimension. The short opening narrative contains both themes, which are taken up by the piano shortly afterwards. Solo instrument and orchestra often share the flow of thoughts in a delightful way. The implementation is almost a pure fantasy implementation , as hardly any material from the topics is processed. This is characteristic of the early Mozart concerts. After a short solo cadenza, the movement casually fades away in piano .

2nd movement: Andante un poco Adagio

In the second movement the usual oboes are replaced by flutes. These give the movement its special timbre , which points to the middle movement of the piano concerto KV 467 . The almost floating character of the music is also achieved by the consistently soft throbbing accompanying chords of the strings in 9/8 meter, often in pizzicato . The theme is cantable and is reminiscent of the aria "Si mostra la sorte" KV 209 . An implementation is missing from the set, its place is a written-out reconciliation, as in many late Andante sets Mozart also occur. The steadily advancing movement ends after a short piano solo with the fading accompaniment by strings and flutes.

3rd movement: Rondeau, allegro

In the 6th piano concerto there is a rondo , as is usual for Mozart's piano concertos. This final rondo begins with a simple theme in the solo piano, which is immediately taken up by the tutti. A second thought is accompanied by horn fanfares, some of the few bars in which the winds have an obbligato function. This was only to change permanently from the 15th piano concerto KV 450 . A minor processing of the rondo theme brings vitality and variety to the sentence. A small solo cadenza leads to the last appearance of the rondo theme and the fading of the movement in piano .

Status

The Concerto KV 238 is one of the quiet representatives of the early works. It dispenses with external gloss, which can also be seen in the smaller instrumentation compared to the Piano Concerto KV 175 . It reveals the principle of orchestral chamber music , which is considered characteristic of some later concerts. All three movements also close in piano, which means that there are no effective closing bars and has a more internal effect. This is a one-time process in Mozart's piano concertos. The soulful middle movement clearly points melodically and tonally to the more mature and sophisticated counterpart in the 21st Piano Concerto K. 467 .

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