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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Violin Concerto No. 4 (Mozart)

Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775 in Salzburg. The autograph of the score is preserved in the Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Kraków. He seemed to

Instrumentation#

The work is scored for solo violin, strings, 2 oboes and 2 horns in D.

Structure#

The concerto has the usual fast–slow–fast structure and lasts around 23 minutes. The movements are: Opening of the first movement, Allegro, featuring a march rhythm and a bugle-like gesture. \relative c’ \set Staff.midiInstrument = #“oboe” \set Score.tempoHideNote = ##t \tempo 4 = 144 \key d \major \tempo “Allegro” d4\f d8. d16 d4 d d r8 fis a4 r8 fis d fis a fis d fis a fis d4 r r2

    • *, Hilary Hahn, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart