Mozart's Piano Concertos
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780754607076
Subjects: Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Composers & musicians; Keyboard instruments; c 1700 to c 1800; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,; Concertos,; Music/Songbooks; Music; piano, orchestra; Genres & Styles - Classical; Concertos; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Concertos (Piano); 1756-1791; History and criticism
First sentence: The concerto genre was discussed at considerable length by the foremost late eighteenth-century music theorist, Heinrich Christoph Koch (1749-1816).
Description: In this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding Mozart's concertos, including analytical approaches, aspects of performance practice, and issues of compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript and early printed editions.