Three (Allegro, Andante, Rondeau, Tempo di Minuetto)
Scoring
Piano
orchestra
The Piano Concerto No. 8 in
C major,
K. 246, or Lützow Concert was written by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in April 1776 in the same year as the
Haffner Serenade (K. 250).[1] Countess Antonia Lützow, who was 25 or 26 years old at the time, was the second wife of Johann Nepomuk Gottfried Graf Lützow, the Commander of the
Hohensalzburg Fortress. She was a fine pianist.[2] The solo work is not highly demanding, but it requires agility. Mozart played the concerto in
Mannheim and Munich on October 4, 1777, and used it for teaching. Three
cadenzas by Mozart have survived.[3][4][5][6] Kitano concludes that the first two cadenzas, A and B in the
Urtext edition, may have been written for the Countess Lützow herself to accommodate her limited technical ability, while cadenza C more resembles what Mozart might have played when he performed the work in Augsburg in 1777.[7]
It is also suggested Mozart wrote a
violin concerto for Countess Lützow's brother
Johann Rudolph Czernin (and almost the same age as Mozart).[8] Johann Rudolf, his sister and their father were in connection with Mozart at that time, while Mozart was in service of their uncle
Count Hieronymus von Colloredo.[9]
^Mozart, W.A. (1976). Wolff, Christoph (ed.). Band 2: Konzerte für ein oder mehrere Klaviere und Orchester mit Kadenzen [NMA V/15//2]. Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Serie V, Werkgruppe 15 (Wolff ed.). Kassel: Bärenreiter Verlag. pp. 26–7.