Mozart's Piano Concertos

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.

CONTENIDO:
List of music examples
List of tables
List of figures
Abbreviations and conventios
Music notation
Preface

- Part One: Contexts: Form, Reception and Performance: Henrich Koch and the classical concerto
Origins of Mozart's piano concertos
Movement forms I: first movements
Movement forms II: slow movements
Movement forms III: finales
The listener's perspective
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.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