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- NOTE Between 1773 and 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the beauty of twenty-four great Concerts for piano and orchestra, The concert KV 482 bears the date of December 16, 1785 and was performed for the first time in Vienna on December 23 of the same year, obtaining great success from the public who wanted the replica of the Andante. The few letters of those years that have come down to us reflect a relieved and euphoric mood, lively snapshots of the Viennese musical environment at that time when the artists worked personally in contact with the public. «Now as you can imagine - Mozart wrote to his father - I must necessarily play - and then write new things. I dedicate the whole morning to the students and almost every evening I have to play ». And in another letter to Leopoldo he says: «Here is the list of all my subscribers. I alone have thirty more than Richter and Fischer together. The first concert went very well. The hall was packed and I enjoyed the new concert I performed tremendously. Everywhere one hears praise of this academy ... ». And it is for these academies - subscription concerts - that Mozart wrote fourteen Concerts for piano and orchestra, including the one in E flat which is being performed tonight. The Concerto KV 488, on the other hand, was finished on March 2, 1786, and performed a few days later in one of Mozart's weekly "academies". The Konzertstück in F minor for piano and orchestra op. 79 by Carl Maria von Weber who together with the Concerto n. 1 in C major and Concerto n. 2 in E flat major op. 32 constitutes the Weberian production for piano and orchestra, it was written in 1821 after the inimitable and superb Freìschütz who was traveling a triumphal path in German theaters. To be more precise it must be said that it was precisely in June of the same year, during the acclaimed performances of Freischütz in Dresden, that the author, who was an excellent pianist, introduced the new piece to the conductor Julius Benedict, who was favorably impressed both by the brilliant virtuosity of the solo part and by the skilful orchestration that uses the following ensemble: two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, two trumpets, one trombone, timpani and strings. The composition is divided into four movements forming a single seamless whole.