The Orpheum Foundation, which supports young soloists, makes the final selection of soloists for its CD productions through its artistic director, Howard Griffiths.
Album & Artwork
This album is part of the "Next Generation Mozart Soloists" edition, an initiative born in 2020 to promote young soloists.
Composition History
Mozart's early piano concertos, like KV 40, were "pasticcio concertos" where he arranged sonata movements by other pre-Classical composers and added orchestral accompaniment.
Compositional Technique
The three movements of Piano Concerto KV 40 are based on works by different composers: Leontzi Honauer, Johann Gottfried Eckard, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Composition History
Mozart began keeping a record of his works in 1784, with the Piano Concerto in E-flat major, KV 449, being its first entry, dated February 9th of that year.
Composer Biography
Mozart's father, Leopold Mozart, published a theoretical treatise on violin playing in 1756, the year of Wolfgang's birth, which became a standard work for generations.
Composer Biography
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dedicated around one hundred of his more than six hundred compositions to the piano, including sonatas, variations, and concertos.
