Piano Concerto No. 8 (Mozart)

8 in C major, K. 246, nicknamed Lützow Concert, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in April 1776 in the same year as the Haffner Serenade (K.

[2] The solo work is not highly demanding, but it requires agility.

Mozart played the concerto in Mannheim and Munich on October 4, 1777, and used it for teaching.

[3][4][5][6] Kitano concludes that the first two cadenzas, A and B in the Urtext edition, may have been written for the Countess Lützow herself to accommodate her limited technical ability, while cadenza C more resembles what Mozart might have played when he performed the work in Augsburg in 1777.

[9] The concerto is scored for two oboes, two horns, solo piano and string section.