Concerto for Piano No.23 in A major (K.488) (Study Score)

Mozart Concerto for Piano No.23 in A major (K.488) (Study Score)

The “Subscription Concerts”, given mostly under his own management, provided Mozart with the stimulus for the composition of his late piano concertos.  In the winter of 1785–86 up to December, according to his father’s report "he squeezed in 3 Subscription Academies”.

In the course of some Lenten concerts given during March, of which we have documentary evidence, the present A major Concerto may have been heard for the first time.  The date of its completion – 2nd March, 1786 – given by Mozart in his catalogue of works which he kept in his own hand from 1784 onwards, also points to this.

In a letter of 8th August 1786 addressed to the Court Chamberlain Sebastian Winter, he offers the Royal Court at Donaueschingen the parts to a number of symphonies, chamber works and piano concertos which he specifies in a thematic index; among them is K.488.  This letter is a valuable document as it gives us an insight into Mozart’s own opinion of his piano concertos: they are for him truly personal confessions intended for a small circle as compared with the many commissioned works, intended for the larger public, for which he was engaged.

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