Mozart Piano Concerto in C Minor, K. 491

Imagine writing a concerto that prompted Beethoven to remark to a friend: “we’ll never be able to write anything like that." That's what you get with Mozart's C Minor concerto, a piece that could be said without hyperbole to be one of the greatest ever written. This week we'll go through all of the revolutionary touches of this concerto, from its harmonic daring to its formal upheavals. In addition, we'll talk about the stormy emotional character of this music, a side of Mozart that is too often ignored.