Mozart's concert arias primarily fall into four categories: additional arias for his or other composers' operas, pieces for specific concert performances, and special cases.
Composition History
The aria 'Ah, lo previdi!' KV 272 is the longest of all Mozart's concert arias and was composed for Josepha Duschek, a famous singer and lifelong friend of Mozart.
Composition History
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed approximately sixty concert arias, which accounts for nearly ten percent of his 626 numbered works in the Köchel catalogue.
Composition History
Mozart's last surviving concert aria, 'Io ti lascio, oh cara, addio' KV Anh. 245, was likely composed in Prague in September 1791, shortly before his departure for Vienna.
Composer Biography
Mozart's first surviving vocal composition, 'Va, dal furor portata' KV 21, was written in London when he was a child during his family's European tour.
Compositional Technique
Mozart reused a theme from his March 1788 aria 'Un bacio di mano' KV 541 in the first movement of his Symphony in C major KV 551, known as the 'Jupiter Symphony'.
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