Flute Concerto No. 1, K313 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The work
‘I am quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument I cannot bear’
It is often said that Mozart disliked the flute intensely. Perhaps the rumour was put about by mischievous clarinet players, who have to make do with just the one (albeit glorious) concerto to the flautists’ two. The claim is attributed to a letter the 22-year-old composer dispatched to his father while on tour in Mannheim in 1777 – chaperoned, for the
