Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos, K. 365, Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299 & Horn Concerto, K. 447 (Alpha Collection)

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Jos van Immerseel
Yoko Kaneko
Frank Theuns
Marjan de Haer
Ulrich Hübner
Anima Eterna Brugge

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Composition History

Mozart composed the Concerto for flute and harp K299 in Paris in 1778 for the Comte de Guines, a flutist, and his harpist daughter, to whom Mozart also gave composition lessons.

Compositional Technique

In Mozart's Concerto for two fortepianos, the key of E flat major consistently evokes a heroic character.

Composition History

The Horn Concerto no.3 K447 was composed by Mozart, probably in two stages, between November 1783 and February 1784, while he was living in Vienna.

Instruments

Mozart's horn concertos demand a particularly virtuosic technique due to the natural horn's limitations, requiring the player to modify lip pressure and hand position to produce notes.

Composition History

Mozart likely wrote the Concerto for two fortepianos K365 for himself and his sister Nannerl, given its high level of virtuosity.

Compositional Technique

The Concerto for flute and harp K299 is very close to the symphonie concertante genre, particularly in its final movement where oboes and horns engage in dialogue with the soloists and orchestra.

Composition History

Most of Mozart's horn works, including all five concertos, were written between 1780 and 1790 for his friend Joseph Leutgeb, a celebrated Austrian horn player.