Example 1777 World Events

Mozart’s Piano Concerto

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) was one of the greatest composers of all time. His music has a natural flow and irresistible charm, and can express humor, joy or sorrow with both conviction and mastery... Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. He was competent on keyboard and violin by age five, and he composed from the age of five – more than 600 works – many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic concertate, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. Piano Concerto No. 9 Jenamy ( Jeunehomme ) in E-flat major, was written in Salzburg in 1777, and first performed there on January 25 th . He scored it for solo piano, 2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings. It is highly regarded by critics, and has been called "perhaps the first unequivocal masterpiece of the classical style.” The work has long been known as the Jeunehomme Concerto, as it was once thought that Mozart composed it for a French pianist ‘Jeunehomme’. Actually, he was inspired by Victoire Jenamy, a daughter of a dancer who was one of Mozart's friends.