Piano Concerto No. 20 (Mozart)
composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. The first performance took place at the Mehlgrube Concert Hall in Vienna on 11 February 1785, with the composer as soloist.
Background
A few days after the first performance, the composer's father, Leopold, visiting Vienna, wrote to his daughter Nannerl about her brother's recent success: "[I heard] an excellent new piano concerto by Wolfgang, on which the copyist was still at work when we got here, and your brother didn't even have time to play through the rondo because he had to oversee the copying operation."
The concerto is written in the key of D minor. Other works by Mozart in that key include the Fantasia K. 397 for piano, the Requiem, a Kyrie, a mass, the aria "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" from the opera The Magic Flute, and parts of the opera Don Giovanni. It is the first of two Mozart piano concertos in a minor key (No. 24 in C minor is the other).
The young Ludwig van Beethoven admired this concerto and kept it in his repertoire. Composers who wrote cadenzas for it include Beethoven (WoO 58), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Johannes Brahms (WoO 14), Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ferruccio Busoni, and Clara Schumann. Beethoven's is the most commonly performed.
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