Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. (1756–1791)
Concert pour le Pianoforte avec Accompagnement... par W A Mozart No 2.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. [1800]. [Oeuvres de W. A. Mozart. Concert pour le Pianoforte avec Accompagnement de 2 Violons, Alto et Basse, Flûte, 2 Clarinettes, 2 Bassons, 2 Cors, par W. A. Mozart. No. 2.]Oblong 4to. 120 pp. Typendruck. No PN. Piano score, with later penned label of `C A Klemm` of Leipzig to card outer wrapper. A number of paper repairs to gutter and page corners, a few slightly affecting the printed score. Hirsch IV, 989/2; RISM M 7345; Köchel, 6th ed., 531.
This Breitkopf edition was published in the same year as the First Edition by André made "d'après la partition en manuscrit," as number two in Breitkopf’s series of 17 piano concertos in his edition of Mozart’s Oeuvres complettes. In the field of music publishing, the years from 1800 to c. 1810 are marked by extremely strong competition in Mozart editions between the firms of Breitkopf and André which is without precedent in printing history. Our copy is without the cadenza in the first movement.
The Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488) was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786, around the time of the premiere of his opera, The Marriage of Figaro. It was one of three subscription concerts given that spring and was probably played by Mozart himself at one of these. (11101)
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