Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor // MOZART

The Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785. The first performance took place at the Mehlgrube Casino in Vienna on February 11, 1785, with the composer as the soloist.

A few days after the first performance, the composer's father, Leopold, visiting in Vienna, wrote to his daughter Nannerl about her brother's recent success: "[I heard] an excellent new piano concerto by Wolfgang, on which the copyist was still at work when we got there, and your brother didn't even have time to play through the rondo because he had to oversee the copying operation."[1]

It is written in the key of D minor. Other works by the composer in that key include the Fantasia K. 397 for piano, Requiem, a Kyrie, a mass, the aria "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" from the opera The Magic Flute and parts of the opera Don Giovanni. It is the first of two piano concertos written in a minor key (No. 24 in C minor being the other).

The young Ludwig van Beethoven admired this concerto and kept it in his repertoire. A bass run from the first movement appears for comic effect in Variation 22 of the Diabelli Variations. Daniel Barenboim contends that this concerto was Joseph Stalin's favorite piece of music. Composers who wrote cadenzas for it include Beethoven (WoO 58), Charles-Valentin Alkan, Johannes Brahms (WoO 16), Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ferruccio Busoni, and Clara Schumann.

Performed by Simone Renzi

[ludix]

This has got to be my favorite piece from Mozart.

[omarrondaludwig]

0:01
The inreresting is that when you expect it from piano sound but comes by orchestra

[ALisztf]

from 5:16 to 5:35










probably the best melody ever created

[nicosuarez]

0:06 Starts like the Queen of the Night's Aria!
0:33 Too!

[barnonekingston]

The piano sound at 2:45-2:52 is filled with so much emotion. It gets me every time.

[chowturtlezpabus]

After watching your videos. I feel like its as if I've taken drugs, everything is stretching!

[ramanconjecture]

Wait, so are you taking the recording and adding synthesia by yourself? If so, you are picking great recordings, and I get goosebumps listening to all of them. Keep on doing this! I love it!

[alexgl]

10:39 to 13:21 Mozart + Beethoven = Musical Heaven

[etpothecary]

From 6:40 reminds me of 3rd movement Moonlight Sonata

[christianjanes]

Thank you so much!! This really is the best channel.

[theend]

0:39 mozart does this kind of stuff in a lot of his pieces :/

[isaacyang]

Will you please do Tchaikovsky 's Piano concerto no.1 if you had the time? If no then I'm fine :) Just suggesting, if you could :)

[aa-lbje]

This feels like like queen of the night

[derpifye]

funny how mozart goes back and forth from his crystal clear, concise and perfectly comprehensible/harmonic standard to this muddy beethovian style; sometimes in the midst of 'whole' pieces themselves.
makes one wonder....

[bujnakrystof]

This is great Mozart's Piano Concert!

[irakliareshidze]

YAY THanks for uploading this :) <3

[Shine-kgvk]

It's like Queen of the Night Aria mixed with Symphony no. 25 and Sonata no. 11

[Avery_Piano]

this is a late comment, but this gave me chills. the good kind

[kristiankroff]

please can you make andre laplantes Version of the mephisto Waltz ? :)

[gjsymphony]

Nice video as always. Do you ever plan on using the neon-like theme you used for Moments Musicaux and Flight of the Bumblebee again?
By the way, how did you manage to create the neon colors in those videos? Is it through the Synthesia Configuration, where you also change the background color?