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WA Mozart's Flute and Harp ConcertoA concerto for flute and harp? I didn't know there wereflute and harp. It must be Baroque, right? But wait! Thend of the title this concerto was written by none oth

genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It's true that manwritten in the Baroque era. Mozart, in fact, prolific asthree flute concertos, and only one with the harp. ThisK. 299, he wrote while in Paris in April of 1788. 1778difficult year in Mozart's life. His father, Leopold Mozato leave Mannheim and go to Paris early in the year, wunhappy, a feeling unabated by music as he expresseddespised French music. Soon afterward, Mozart's motand died at the beginning of July. Mozart's father, whoSalzburg at the time of the illness and death, wrote lettof indolence, lying, and neglect of his mother (Mozart,Online).

Despite the turbulence of this period of Mozart's life, hiconcerto is light and energetic. Written in C major wittwo horns, and strings, the concerto's themes utilize rusometimes ascending and descending patterns of thirdtwenty-seven minutes. As was typical of other Classica

work has three movements that alternate between fastexemplifies a standard Mozart concerto form, adaptedform of his mentor, JC Bach. A closing theme used in tthe ritornello and betrays the relationship between Claforms and Baroque concerto forms.Allegro opens with a double exposition, in which theclosing themes are played by the orchestra and then exsoloists. During the exposition, the flute takes most of

theme while the harp provides a harmonic structure wichords and scale patterns, only occasionally taking thinstruments elaborate on the theme presented by the ortogether to ornament and develop the melody, as was cexposition works. When the soloists expand the secondeveloped in the dominant key, G major. The orchestrasoloists through most of the exposition, but occasionalexpose the solo or duet lines. When the development bshifts into an unstable key area, modulating throughFollowing the development section, the first and seconthe tonic key as the recapitulation. The flute and harp s

before the final repetition of the closing theme, thoughcadenza as would later be seen in the Romantic era co

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