Cadenzas for Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 466

Cadenza · Piano Solo

Cadenzas

For W. A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466

Auerbach’s cadenzas for the first and third movements of Mozart’s D minor piano concerto: a contemporary response to one of Mozart’s most charged concerto landscapes.

Year
2006
Duration
5′
Forces
Solo Piano
Publisher
Sikorski

First Performance

26 July 2006, Kiel. Gerhard Oppitz, piano.

Source Work

Written for W. A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466. Cadenzas for the first and third movements.

Structure

  1. I
    Allegro
  2. II
    Agitato – Adagio misterioso, tragico

Work Information

Full Title
Cadenzas to Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466 (Auerbach, 1st and 3rd mvt)
Source Work
W. A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466
Category
Cadenza
Instrumentation
pft.
Abbreviations PDF
Expanded Forces
Solo piano.
Duration
5 minutes according to the current publisher page; 6 minutes in the Sikorski / Boosey Auerbach catalogue.
Year
2006
First Performance
26 July 2006, Kiel.
Gerhard Oppitz, piano.
Publisher
Sikorski · Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski
Availability
For sale · Print on Demand · available worldwide from Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski.

Note

Mozart’s D minor concerto has long invited later composers and performers into its unfinished rhetorical space: the surviving concerto leaves room for cadenzas that both complete and reinterpret the soloist’s role.

Auerbach’s cadenzas address this inherited space directly, allowing the pianist to move between classical proportion and a darker, more contemporary harmonic imagination.

Online Materials

  • Video / YouTube

    Educational listening access to the embedded performance on this page.

    YouTube
  • Score / Materials
    Official Publisher Page

    Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski catalogue page for the work.

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  • Score / Materials
    Purchase Score

    Print on Demand score inquiry through Boosey & Hawkes.

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  • Reference
    Auerbach Work Catalogue

    Official Sikorski / Boosey catalogue reference containing first performance, movement listing, and catalogue duration.

    Boosey & Hawkes · Sikorski
  • Reference
    Boosey & Hawkes Standard Abbreviations

    Reference document for Boosey-style instrumentation abbreviations.

    Boosey & Hawkes
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Publisher and Materials

Published by Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski. The score is available as Print on Demand through the official Boosey & Hawkes purchase page.

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