The
Concerto for Flute Concerto No. 1 in
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KThe Köchel-Verzeichnis is a complete, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart which was originally created by Ludwig von Köchel. It is abbreviated K or KV. For example, Mozart's Requiem in D minor was, according to Köchel's counting, the 626th piece Mozart composed....
. 313) was written in 1778 by
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as...
. Commissioned by the Dutch
flautist-Naming controversy:The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of vicious dispute among players of the instrument...
Ferdinand De Jean in 1777, Mozart was supposed to provide four
flute quartetA flute quartet is a musical term for a type of chamber music group. They are normally found in two forms: those consisting of a flute, a violin, a viola and a cello; and those consisting of four flutes...
s and three flute concerti, yet he only completed two of the three concerti: K. 313 being the first. The
Andante for Flute and OrchestraThe Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C major was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1778 and commissioned by Ferdinand De Jean as a possible replacement or alternative second movement for the Flute Concerto No. 1 's Adagio ma non troppo....
K.315 may have been written as an alternative slow movement for this concerto.
The piece is scored for a standard set of orchestral
stringsA string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. The most common string instruments in the string family are guitar, violin, viola,...
, two
oboesThe oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois", "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
(which are replaced with two flutes in the Adagio movement), and two
hornsThe horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
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The piece itself is divided into three
movementsA movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession.Often a composer attempts to...
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The
Concerto for Flute Concerto No. 1 in
G majorG major is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Its key signature has one sharp, F. .Its relative minor is E minor, and its parallel minor is G minor....
(
KThe Köchel-Verzeichnis is a complete, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart which was originally created by Ludwig von Köchel. It is abbreviated K or KV. For example, Mozart's Requiem in D minor was, according to Köchel's counting, the 626th piece Mozart composed....
. 313) was written in 1778 by
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as...
. Commissioned by the Dutch
flautist-Naming controversy:The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of vicious dispute among players of the instrument...
Ferdinand De Jean in 1777, Mozart was supposed to provide four
flute quartetA flute quartet is a musical term for a type of chamber music group. They are normally found in two forms: those consisting of a flute, a violin, a viola and a cello; and those consisting of four flutes...
s and three flute concerti, yet he only completed two of the three concerti: K. 313 being the first. The
Andante for Flute and OrchestraThe Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C major was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1778 and commissioned by Ferdinand De Jean as a possible replacement or alternative second movement for the Flute Concerto No. 1 's Adagio ma non troppo....
K.315 may have been written as an alternative slow movement for this concerto.
The piece is scored for a standard set of orchestral
stringsA string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. The most common string instruments in the string family are guitar, violin, viola,...
, two
oboesThe oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois", "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
(which are replaced with two flutes in the Adagio movement), and two
hornsThe horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
.
The piece itself is divided into three
movementsA movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession.Often a composer attempts to...
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- I. Allegro
Allegro may mean:* The musical tempo meaning quick, lively or, literally, "cheerful" * Allegro library, a computer game programming library* Allegro , a typeface designed in 1936...
maestosoMaestoso is an Italian musical term and is used to direct performers to play a certain passage of music in a stately, dignified and majestic fashion or, it is used to describe music as such. The term is commonly used in relatively slow pieces; however, there are numerous examples - such as the...
- II. Adagio
Adagio may refer to:*Adagio, a tempo marking indicating that the music is to be played slowly*A composition marked to be played adagio, e.g...
ma non troppo
- III. Rondo
Rondo, and its French equivalent rondeau, is a word that has been used in music in a number of ways, most often in reference to a musical form, but also in reference to a character-type that is distinct from the form...
: TempoIn musical terminology, tempo is the speed or pace of a given piece. It is a crucial element of composition, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece.-Measuring tempo:...
di Menuetto
The opening of the second movement is often known as resembling the famous theme from the Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss, Jr., which was composed many years later.
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