Piano Concerto No. 9 (Mozart)
| Piano Concerto in E-flat major | |
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| by W. A. Mozart | |
Mozart in 1777, the year of the composition, painted in Bologna by an unknown artist
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| Key | E-flat major |
| Catalogue | K. 271 |
| Composed | 1777 |
| Movements | Three (Allegro, Andantino, Rondo, Presto) |
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The Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jenamy" ("Jeunehomme") in E-flat major, K. 271, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written in Salzburg in 1777, when Mozart was 21 years old.
Mozart completed the concerto in January 1777, nine months after his Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major and with few significant compositions in the intervening period. He composed the work for Victoire Jenamy, the daughter of Jean-Georges Noverre and a proficient pianist. Mozart performed the concerto at a private concert on 4 October 1777. Jenamy may have premiered the work earlier.
The work is scored for solo piano, 2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings.
It consists of three movements:
The first movement opens, unusually for the time, with interventions by the soloist, anticipating Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Concertos. As Girdlestone (1964) notes, its departures from convention do not end with this early solo entrance, but continue in the style of dialogue between piano and orchestra in the rest of the movement. Mozart wrote two cadenzas for this movement.
The second movement is written in the relative minor key. In only five of Mozart's piano concertos is the second movement in a minor key (K. 41, K. 271, K. 456, K. 482, and K. 488. K. 41 is an arrangement). Mozart wrote two cadenzas for this movement.
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