ExclusiveMozart: Concerto pour piano No.19, F major - II. Allegratta

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto pour piano No.19, F major - II. Allegratta. This beautiful piece was preserved European Archive. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal), and is provided through musopen.org.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K. 459, in Vienna toward the end of 1784. This was a period of intense productivity and public performance for Mozart. In fact, the F-major concerto was the last of six piano concertos he completed in that single year. Mozart had moved to Vienna in 1781 and initially found success, but by the mid-1780s he recognized that the city’s audiences were fickle. To maintain his fame and income, he organized subscription concerts (then called musical “academies”) where he would premiere new works, including his own piano concertos. Concerto No. 19 was likely first performed by Mozart himself at one such concert in early 1785, as part of his efforts to keep his name before the public.

Politically and culturally, Vienna in 1784 was a vibrant center of Enlightenment ideas under Emperor Joseph II. Mozart mingled with aristocratic patrons and intellectual circles – he even joined a Masonic lodge in December 1784, reflecting the era’s enlightened social milieu. In a letter around this time, Mozart lamented that to win applause a concerto had to be either extremely simple or bewilderingly complex, because true excellence was not fully appreciated by the public. In writing the F-major Concerto, he sought a balance between elegance and brilliance. He was also drawing inspiration from contemporaries: 1784 marked the height of Mozart’s friendship with Joseph Haydn, whose music he greatly admired and learned from[8]. All these factors formed the backdrop for the creation of Piano Concerto No. 19, which Mozart composed (according to his own catalog) on 11 December 1784. The piece was designed for his own performance and intended to please the Viennese audience while still showcasing sophisticated artistry.
Source: mozartportal.com

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