Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major, K. 313

Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Bezrodnyi, Sergey

Jacot, Sebastian

Dufossez, Chloe

Catalogue Number: DAK041-01

Masterclass by the Swiss virtuoso and Gewandhausorchester 1st Principal Flute Sebastian Jacot exploring the Mozart's Flute Concerto in G Major alongside the talented french flutist Chloe Dufossez.

The G Major Concerto was commissioned in 1777 by Ferdinand De Jean, an amateur German flutist and wealthy surgeon who worked for the VOC (Dutch East India Company) and who offered the generous sum of 200 florins in exchange for three flute concertos and four flute quartets.

Mozart, still a promising young composer, accepted the offer but, distracted by other projects, procrastinated and did not fully complete the terms of the agreement. He did, in fact, deliver a couple of Flute Quartets and two Flute Concertos, being the No. 1, KV 313 in G Major the only original concerto composition. The second one, finished by the deadline, is a flute transcription from his Oboe Concerto in C Major KV 314. Consequently, De Jean paid only 96 florins to Mozart instead of the agreed full fee.