Leader, J. MouLAND BEGBIE
Conductor. GUY WARRACK
IAN WHYTE (pianoforte) the height of his powers. His father had just come to stay with him and his wife in Vienna, and the very day after his arrival (that is, on February 11) heard his son play this new composition at one of his own subscription concerts. That same night the delighted father wrote to his daughter: ' Wolfgang gave a new and first-rate piano concerto at which the copyist was still working yesterday when we arrived, and your brother had not had time even to p!ay through the rondo, as he had to look over the copyist's work. The (passionatedly excited) Concerto is in D minor '. Leopold's eyes, he told Marianne, had filled with tears of happiness at Wolfgang's music and his playing of it. The very next evening he had an even greater joy, for Wolfgang invited Haydn to meet his father, and it was on this occasion that the elder master spoke in such glowing terms of Mozart's genius.
Mozart's Pianoforte Concerto in D minor was written in 1785, when he was at