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The opening Allegro Moderato of Mozart's Violin Concerto in B Flat Major, performed on original instruments by the award winning Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. Augusta McKay Lodge, classical violin. This work is here presented in 8K video for the for the first time. Because Mozart is rightly regarded of as one of the great keyboard virtuosi of his generation, it can be easy to forget that in many of his first prominent positions and opportunities, he worked as a violinist. In 1772, he was hired as a salaried concertmaster in Salzburg, a position he had already been holding on an honorary basis for three years. It is possibly for himself, in this position, that he wrote his first violin concerto. While it was previously thought that all five of Mozart’s violin concerti were composed in 1775, more recent evidence suggests that this one dates to two years prior, during a period when the teenage composer was seeking greater stability and exhibiting increased maturity in his compositions. Here, M
