Mozart signaled the completion of his C-minor Piano Concerto by entering it into his “Verzeichnüss aller meiner Werke” (Catalogue of All My Works) on March 24, 1786. He was engaged in writing several other major pieces at about the same time, including his Piano Concerto in A major KV 488, and his opera Le nozze di Figaro.
Merely citing these works makes the point that Mozart was at the very top of his creative genius in the spring of 1786. That one could make an analogous claim for other spans in the last decade of his life reminds us of how amazing his abilities were.
The C-minor Piano Concerto stands a world apart from the charmed piano concertos that immediately preceded it in that it is only one of two that are in a minor key.
Listen now as pianist Leif Ove Andsnes performs this concerto for you:
