Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491

Mozart Statue by Viktor Tilgner, 1892, Burggarten, Vienna

  The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491, is a concerto for keyboard (usually a piano or fortepiano) and orchestra composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed the concerto in the winter of 1785–1786, finishing it on 24 March 1786, three weeks after the completion of the Piano Concerto No. 23 (K. 488) in A Major. He premiered the work in early April 1786 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. The work is one of Mozart's most advanced compositions in the concerto genre. Its early admirers included Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Musicologist Arthur Hutchings considered it to be Mozart's greatest piano concerto. WIKIPEDIA VIDEO: Mozart - Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K 491 Vladimir Feltsman, piano Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra Yuri Bashmet, conductor