Piano Concerto No. 9 (Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E major, K. 271, known as the Jeunehomme or Jenamy concerto was written in Salzburg in 1777 when the composer was 21 years old. Composition Mozart completed the concerto in January 1777, nine months after his Piano Concerto No. 8 in C major and with few significant compositions in the intervening period. He composed the work for Victoire Jenamy, the daughter of Jean-Georges Noverre and a proficient pianist. Mozart performed the concerto at a private concert on 4 October 1777. Jenamy may have premiered the work earlier. Structure The work is scored for solo piano, 2 oboes, 2 horns (in E), and strings. It consists of three movements: I. Allegro Unusually for the time, the first movement opens with interventions by the soloist, anticipating Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Concertos. As Cuthbert Girdlestone (1964) notes, its departures from convention do not end with this early solo entrance but continue in the style of dialogue between piano and orchestra in the rest of the movement. Mozart wrote two cadenzas for this movement. II. Andantino The second movement is written in the relative minor key. In only five of Mozart's piano concertos is the second