AoS1

• Context:

  • Composed in Vienna
  • Date:1805-1806 (composition dates)
  • Composed for Archduke Rudolf - who was Beethoven's amicum et discipulum :)
  • First public performance in the Theatre an der Wien, Vienna (1808) (Beethoven was the Soloist)
  • Structure: Sonata form with double exposition.
  • Solo piano with orchestra
  • 4 out of 5 Piano concertos
  • Visited Vienna in 1787 to study with Mozart
  • Haydn took him on as a pupil
• Beethoven Structure:

  • Sonata form
  • Double exposition
  • Delayed second subject
  • Tutti sections in the 1st exposition

  Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 Structure:

  • Sonata form
  • Double exposition
  • No delayed second subject
  • Tutti sections throughout, key in the 1st exposition
• Beethoven other:

  • 'x' melody develops throughout the movement
  • Main key G major
  • Begins with a homophonic texture piano RH and LH
  • Solo piano and orchestra
  • Linking passages with lots of rhythmic diminution and scalic passages
• Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 other:

  • Own 'x' melody set at the very beginning of the piece
  • Main key C major
  • Begins with a homophonic texture- strings as accompaniment
  • Call and response between piano and orchestra, first exposition
  • Solo piano and orchestra
• Outline of structure:

  • Exposition: 1st Subject, Transition 1, Codetta
  • Solo Exposition: 1st Subject, Transition 2, 2nd Subject, Transition 1, Codetta
  • Development: Development of 1st subject melody
  • Recapitulation: Transition 3, 2nd Subject, Transition 1
  • Coda: Codetta