Mozart's Piano Concertos

✍ Scribed by John Irving

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have attracted the attention of generations of musicologists who have explored their manifold meanings from a variety of viewpoints. In this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding Mozart's concertos including analytical approaches, aspects of performance practice and issues of compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript and early printed editions. Treating the concertos collectively as a repertoire, rather than as individual works, the first section of the book tackles broad thematic issues such as the role of the piano concerto in Mozart's quasi-freelance life in late eighteenth-century Vienna, the origin of his concertos in earlier traditions of concerto writing; eighteenth-century theoretical frameworks for the understanding of movement forms, subsequent historical shifts in the perception of the concerto's form, listening strategies and performance practices. This is followed by a 'documentary register' which proceeds through all 23 original works, drawing together information on the source materials. Accounts of the concertos' compositional genesis, early performance history and reception are also included here, drawing extensively on the Mozart family correspondence and other contemporary reports. Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of material, Irving provides an invaluable reference source for those already familiar with this repertoire.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Contents
List of Music Examples
List of Tables
List of Figures
Abbreviations and Conventions
Music notation
Preface
Part One: Contexts: Form, Reception and Performance
1 Heinrich Koch and the classical concerto
2 Origins of Mozart's piano concertos
3 Movement forms I: first movements
4 Movement forms II: slow movements
5 Movement forms III: finales
6 The listener's perspective
7 Performance considerations
Part Two: Mozart's Piano Concertos: A Register
Piano concerto in D major, K. 175
Piano concerto in B flat major, K.238
Concerto for three (or two) pianos in F major, K.242
Piano concerto in C major, K.246
Piano concerto in E flat major, K.271
Concerto for two pianos in E flat major, K.365
Three concertos in A major, K.414, in F major, K.413 and in C major, K.415
Piano concerto in E flat major, K.449
Piano concerto in B flat major, K.450
Piano concerto in D major, K.451
Piano concerto in G major, K.453
Piano concerto in B flat major, K.456
Piano concerto in F major, K.459
Piano concerto in D minor, K.466
Piano concerto in C major, K.467
Piano concerto in E flat major, K.482
Piano concerto in A major, K.488
Piano concerto in C minor, K.491
Piano concerto in C major, K.503
Piano concerto in D major, K.537
Piano concerto in B flat major, K.595
Bibliography
Index