Tag: Piano Quintet in A major

  • PROGRAM NOTES: THE VERTAVO STRING QUARTET & PAUL LEWIS

    PROGRAM NOTES: THE VERTAVO STRING QUARTET & PAUL LEWIS

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major K. 414 Mozart’s twelfth piano concerto was one of three composed in 1782 for sale to the Viennese public by advance subscription, the 18th-century equivalent 
of ‘crowd-sourcing’. A major selling point of these ‘subscription’ concertos (K. 413, 414 & 415) was that they were composed…