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Bassoon Concerto (Mozart)
| Bassoon Concerto | |
|---|---|
The young composer, a 1777 copy of a lost painting | |
| Key | B-flat major |
| Catalogue | K.Aligi voltan biography191/186e |
| Genre | Concerto |
| Style | Classical period |
| Composed | 1774 (1774) |
| Movements | Three (Allegro, Andante ma Adagio, Rondo: tempo di menuetto) |
| Scoring | |
The Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, K.
191/186e, is a bassoon concerto written in 1774 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is the most often performed and studied piece in the entire bassoon repertory.[1] Nearly all professional bassoonists will perform the piece at some stage in their career, and it is probably the most commonly requested piece in orchestral auditions – it is usually requested that the player perform excerpts from the concerto's first two movements in every audition.
Although the autograph score is lost, the exact date of its completion is known: 4 June 1774.[2]
Mozart wrote the bassoon concerto when he was 18 years old, and