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Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 24, 2017 by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:32, 7 March 2017 (UTC)



The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491, is a concerto composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for keyboard (period fortepiano pictured) and orchestra. Mozart composed it in the winter of 1785–86, and completed it on 24 March 1786. He played the solo part in the premiere in early April that year at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The work is one of only two minor-key piano concertos that Mozart composed, the other being the No. 20 in D Minor. None of his other piano concertos features a larger array of instruments: strings, woodwinds including both oboes and clarinets, horns, trumpets and timpani. The concerto consists of three movements. The first, Allegro, is in sonata form and is longer than any opening movement of a concerto that Mozart had previously composed. The second movement, Larghetto, features a strikingly simple principal theme, and the final Allegretto presents a theme followed by eight variations. The work is one of Mozart's most advanced compositions in the concerto genre. Early admirers included Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. The musicologist Arthur Hutchings considered it to be Mozart's greatest piano concerto.
 * Most recent similar article(s): I don't recall any piano concerto, not even another piece of classical music or opera.
 * Main editors: Syek88
 * Promoted: today, 21 February 2017
 * Reasons for nomination: day of first performance, user's first FA, rare topic, wonderful music!
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:45, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Support Triplecaña (talk) 23:01, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Support as author, with thanks to Gerda Arendt. In case it is relevant, I believe this is the first Featured Article on a Mozart composition. Syek88 (talk) 08:41, 23 February 2017 (UTC)