Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds: A Drama of Conversing Voices
In Mozart’s later piano concertos (Nos. 14-27), written for Vienna, the woodwinds step out from the shadows. Previously relegated to accompanying lines which often doubled the strings, the clarinet, flute, oboe, and bassoon now engaged in direct conversation with the solo piano. As with operatic characters, the persona of each voice came into focus. The same magic can be heard in Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, K. 452. …