Horn Concerto No. 1
I. Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K. (412+514)/386b was written in 1791. The work is in two movements. Unusually, each movement received a distinct number in the first edition of the Köchel catalogue:
- Allegro 4/4 (K. 412)
- Rondo (Allegro) 6/8 (K. 514)
The concerto is scored for solo horn, two oboes, two bassoons, and strings. This is one of two horn concertos of Mozart to include bassoons (the other is K. 447), but in this one he "treats them indifferently in the first movement." It is the only one of Mozart's horn concertos to be in D major (the rest are in E-flat major) and the only one to have just two movements instead of the usual three (with the exception of the incompletely scored horn concerto, K. 370b+371). Although numbered first, this was actually the last of the four to be completed.
Allegro | First Movement
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