Description

Mozart composed his Piano Concerto in D minor, K466, for his subscription concerts during the Lenten season of 1785. He noted in his own catalog that the work was finished on February 10, 1785, and premiered the following day. Leopold Mozart, visiting Vienna at the time, referenced the concerto in a letter to his daughter dated February 14, mentioning that a copyist was transcribing the piece upon their arrival, and that Wolfgang had not yet had the opportunity to play through the Rondo due to overseeing the copying process. This Urtext edition of the concerto, which includes orchestral accompaniment arranged for a second piano (requiring two copies for performance), has been edited by esteemed musicologist Christoph Wolff in collaboration with pianist Christian Zacharias. Additionally, it features Beethoven's cadenzas (WoO58), who notably gave the first public performance of the concerto in Vienna, included in the appendix.