A solo part suggests Piano Concerto No 23 was composed for his favorite pupil, Barbara Ployer, researchers say.
From a piece in the Guardian...
A manuscript of Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 with an explosion of unfamiliar extra notes has suggested to a researcher that the piece was written for and performed by one of the composer's favourite pupils.
Research by the pianist and music historian Robert Levin – who will perform the more ornate version next week with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London – has suggested the manuscript is a more faithful impression of how Mozart would have performed such pieces.
The extra section was written so Mozart's favourite pupil, Barbara Ployer, could perform it, and the manuscript includes further notes in her handwriting. Mozart himself would have improvised the embellishment in performance.
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