Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
10/6/1995, 5 Tracks, 1:12:09
Featuring
Otakar Trhlík
Peter Breiner
Zuzana Niederdorfer-Paulechová
Philharmonia Cassovia
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frédéric Chopin
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Composer Biography
Mozart's first attempt at writing a concerto was at the age of four or five, described by a family friend as a "smudge of notes."
Composer Biography
Fryderyk Chopin, though born in Warsaw, Poland, and thoroughly Polish, made his career in Paris, France.
Compositional Technique
Ludwig van Beethoven, who was prevented from studying with Mozart due to his mother's illness, provided cadenzas for the first and last movements of Mozart's D Minor Piano Concerto.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Chopin described the Adagio of his E Minor Concerto as "like dreaming in beautiful spring-time by moonlight," expressing his feelings for the singer Konstancja Gladkowska.
Composition History
Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, though numbered first, was written second and was performed at his final public concert in Warsaw.
Composition History
Mozart wrote his remaining seventeen piano concertos in Vienna primarily for his own use in subscription concerts during the last decade of his life.
Compositional Technique
Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466, is the first of his piano concertos in a minor key, adding a new dimension of seriousness to the form.
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