ExclusiveMozart: Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K. 466 - Romance

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K. 466 - Romance. This beautiful piece was played by Markus Staab. It has common licence (CC BY 3.0 Attribution 3.0 Unported), and is provided through musopen.org.

Neuer Markt in Vienna with Capuchin Church and Haus zur Mehlgrube on the right, painting by Bernardo Bellotto, 1760
The Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. The first performance took place at the Mehlgrube [Germany] Concert Hall in Vienna on 11 February 1785, with the composer as soloist.

The young Ludwig van Beethoven admired this concerto and kept it in his repertoire.

One of Mozart's favorite pianos that he played while living in Vienna had a pedal-board operated with the feet, like that of an organ. This piano is on display at the Mozart House in Salzburg, but no longer has a pedal-board. That Mozart had a piano with a pedal-board is reported in a letter by his father, who visited his son in Vienna. Among Mozart's piano works, none are explicitly written with a part for a pedal-board, but according to Leopold's report, at the first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 20, Mozart, who was the soloist and conductor, used his own piano equipped with a pedal-board. Presumably the pedal-board was used to reinforce the left-hand part or add lower notes than the standard keyboard could play. Because Mozart was also an expert on the organ, operating a pedal-board with his feet was no harder than using only his hands.

Simone Schlegel filmed the video in our kitchen. These lilies are actually in bloom right now, too. It's lovely to see them every day. Wenjing Ma edited the video.


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