Piano Concerto No. 8 (Mozart): Difference between revisions

| subtitle = No. 8 "Lützow"

| catalogue = [[Köchel-Verzeichnis catalogue|K.]]. 246

The '''Piano Concerto No. 8''' in [[C major]], [[Köchel-Verzeichnis catalogue|K.]]. 246, or ''Lützow Concert'' was written by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] in April 1776 in the same year as the [[Haffner Serenade]] (KVK. 250).<ref>Hutchings, A. 1997. ''A Companion to Mozart's Piano Concertos'', Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-816708-3}}</ref> Countess Antonia Lützow, who was 25 or 26 years old at the time, was the second wife of Johann Nepomuk Gottfried Graf Lützow, the Commander of the [[Hohensalzburg Fortress]],. She was a fine pianist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.steamedwildebeest.com/concertos |title=ArchivedSteamed copyWildebeest Ensemble - concertos |accessdate=2009-09-10 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001013246/http://www.steamedwildebeest.com/concertos |archivedate=2008-10-01 |df= }}</ref> The solo work is not highly demanding, but it requires agility. Mozart played the concerto in [[Mannheim]] and Munich on October 4, 1777, and used it for teaching. Three different [[cadenza]]s by Mozart have survived.<ref>{{Cite ofbook varying|last=Mozart difficulty,|first=W.A. accommodating|title=Band the2: abilitiesKonzerte offür performersein fromoder studentmehrere levelKlaviere tound professional:Orchester onemit forKadenzen two[NMA pianos.V/15//2] |publisher=Bärenreiter Verlag |year=1976 |editor-last=Wolff |editor-first=Christoph |edition=Wolff |series=Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Serie V, Werkgruppe 15 |location=Kassel |pages=26-7}}</ref><ref>[[H. C. Robbins Landon|Robbins Landon, H. C.C.]] (1990) ''The Mozart Compendium''. {{ISBN|90-439-0312-4}} pb.</ref><ref>[http://dme.mozarteum.at/DME/nma/nma_cont.php?vsep=148&l=1&p1=6 Critical report], ''[[Neue Mozart-Ausgabe]]''</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naxosdirect.com/title/8.550208 |title=ArchivedMOZART: Piano Concertos Nos. 6, 8 and 19 CD - Listen to Naxos Label - Naxos Classics Music - Naxos copyDirect |accessdate=2009-09-10 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123022941/http://www.naxosdirect.com/title/8.550208 |archivedate=2008-11-23 }}</ref> Kitano concludes that the first two cadenzas, A and B in the [[Urtext edition]], may have been written for the Countess Lützow herself to accommodate her limited technical ability, while cadenza C more resembles what Mozart might have played when he performed the work in Augsburg in 1777.<ref>{{Cite journal |dflast=Kitano |first=Hsuan Chang |date=2018-05-16 |title=Improvisation in Mozart's keyboard music: a performer's approach to his Eingänge and cadenzas |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2022/22120 |journal=Doctor of Music |type=Dissertation |language=en |pages=296 |via=Indiana University}}</ref>

It is also suggested Mozart wrote a [[violin concerto]] for Countess Lützow's brother [[Johann Rudolf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz|Johann Rudolph Czernin]] (and almost the same age as Mozart).<ref>[http://www.mozartforum.com/Lore/article.php?id=112 Mozartforum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926231405/http://www.mozartforum.com/Lore/article.php?id=112 |date=2007-09-26 }}</ref> Johann Rudolf, his sister and their father were in connection with Mozart at that time, while Mozart was in service of their uncle [[Count Hieronymus von Colloredo]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8o6mVjlSzM4C&pg=PA130 ''The Cambridge Mozart encyclopedia''] by [[Cliff Eisen]], [[Simon P. Keefe]]</ref>

The concerto is scored for two [[oboe]]s, two [[Horn (instrument)|horns]], solo [[piano]] and [[String instrument|string section]].

The concerto, very convenient for beginning performers,<ref>''Mozarts Klavierkonzerte: Ein musikalischer Werkführer'' by Marius Flothuis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gcWxewP3zEcC&pg=PA24 p. 24]</ref> is in three [[Movement (music)|movements]]:

*I. |[[Tempo#Italian tempo markings|AllegroAndante]] aperto.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=o-BHj88reRcC&pg=PP8 Piano Concertos Nos. 7-10 in Full[[F Score: With Mozart's Cadenzasmajor]]</ref>

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