Piano Concerto No. 20 (Mozart)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor K 466 was written in 1785. As was common with his concertos, it is three movements.
A few days after the first performance, the composer's father, Leopold, visiting in Vienna, wrote to his daughter Nannerl about her brother's recent success: [I heard] a new and excellent piano concerto by Wolfgang, where the copyist was still at work when we arrived, and your brother didn't even have time to play through the rondo because he had to supervise the copying operation.
It is written in the key of D minor key, which held great poignance for Mozart. Some of his most emotional works, such as the Requiem, a Kyrie and the dark opera Don Giovanni, are all in that key.
The young Ludwig van Beethoven admired this concerto and kept it in his repertoire. He wrote a set of cadenzas for it that are used today.