Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Piano Concerto No.9 in E Flat Major, K. 271 (Jeunehomme Concerto)
Piano Concerto No.27 in B Flat Major, K. 595

The solo concerto had become, during the eighteenth century, an important vehicle for composer-performers, a form of music that had developed from !he work of Johann Sebastian Bach, through his much admired sons Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian, to provide a happy synthesis of solo and orchestral performance. Mozart w rote his first numbered piano concertos, arrangements derived from other composers, in 1767, undertaking further arrangements from Johann Christian Bach a few years later. His first attempt at writing a concerto, however, had been at the age of four or five, described by a friend of the family as a smudge of notes, although, his father claimed, very correctly composed. In Salzburg as an adolescent Mozart wrote half a dozen piano concertos, the last of these for two pianos afte