The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is a musical composition by the American composer Aaron Copland.
The work was commissioned by the conductor Serge Koussevitzky who was then music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
It was first performed on January 28, 1927, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Koussevitzky with the composer himself as the soloist.
[3] The piano concerto was not a critical success upon its premiere and remained virtually unperformed for three decades.
[4] The piece was nevertheless admired by the conductor Leonard Bernstein, who featured it in the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts and later produced the first recording of the concerto with the New York Philharmonic and Copland again performing the piano part.