Bill Blank ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Andreas Benend wrote:
>
>>just listen to his piano concerto for the left hand and orchestra.  it's
>>the only great piano concerto after mozart.:-)
>
>Mozart piano concertos great?  I don't think so.  The first and the last
>piano concertos were written by Beethoven.

This may be your opinion.  It certainly wasn't Beethoven's who once declared
Ferdinand Ries (IIRC one of his pupils anyway) "We shall never be able to
write anything like that" regarding Mozart's K466 (or possibly 491, one of
the minor key concertos).

IMHO Mozart was responsible for the single most remarkable series of GREAT
piano concertos: K414-K595.

And there are many great concertos after Beethoven: Schumann, Brahms (2) to
name but 3.

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion.  Your life, though, IMHO will
be the poorer for it.

deryk barker
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