Piano Concerto No.

7 (Mozart)
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Concerto for three pianos
No. 7
by W. A. Mozart

Pianoforte by Johann Andreas Stein (Augsburg, 1775)

– Berlin, Musikinstrumenten-Museum
Key F major
Catalogue K. 242
Composed 1776, rev. 1780
Movements Three (Allegro, Adagio, Tempo di
minuetto)
Scoring  3 pianos
 orchestra

In 1776, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed three piano concertos, one of which was the
Concerto for three pianos and orchestra in F major, No. 7, K. 242. He originally finished it in
February 1776 for three pianos; however, when he eventually recomposed it for himself and another
pianist in 1780 in Salzburg, he rearranged it for two pianos, and that is how the piece is often
performed today. The concerto is often nicknamed "Lodron" because it was commissioned by
Countess Antonia Lodron to be played with her two daughters Aloysia and Giuseppa. The third
piano part, intended for the younger daughter, is more moderate in its technical demands.[1]

The concerto is scored for 2 oboes, 2 horns, 3 solo pianos and strings. It has 3 movements:

1. Allegro 4
4
 2. Adagio in B-flat major 4
4

3. Rondo: Tempo di minuetto 3

4

Girdlestone, in his Mozart and his Piano Concertos, describes the concerto and compares one of the
themes of its slow movement to similar themes that turn up in later concertos – especially No. 25, K.
503 – in more developed forms.[2]

The first British performance was given by the New Queen's Hall Orchestra at The Proms, Queen's
Hall on 12 September, 1907. The soloists were Henry Wood, York Bowen and Frederick Kiddle,
under the baton of Henri Verbrugghen.[3