The very first piano concertos were written in London in the 1760s and 1770s by JC Bach, KF Abel and James Hook.  These composers were responding to the English passion for playing the new square pianos being manufactured by German instrument makers who had settled in London at the time.

A little later, in Vienna, substantial piano concertos were written by Leopold Koželuch and Johann Baptist Wanhal, but it was Mozart’s works – especially concertos K466, K492 and K595 – that finally showed the world what the form was capable of achieving, and it was these works that were to fire Beethoven into likeminded action.  The lecture looks at the early history of the piano concerto up to the time of Beethoven.

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This lecture is an introduction to the piano concerto before Beethoven began writing his in Vienna in the 1790s.  It is part of a series of talks on Beethoven’s five piano concertos.  There is a reduction in cost for buying the six lectures as a series, however, they may also be purchased individually.

Schedule

24 February (Thursday) – An introduction to the piano concerto

4 March (Friday) – Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 19 (1787-95)

29 March (Tuesday) – Piano Concerto No 1 in C Op 15 (1795 rev 1800)

11 April (Monday) – Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 (1800-03)

26 April (Tuesday) – Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 (1805-06)

26 May (Thursday) – Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73 1809

All lectures start at 6.00 pm and run for 1 hour

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