The Piano Concerto No. 18 in B♭ major, K. 456, subtitled the Paradis, is a piano concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Mozart's own catalogue of his works, this concerto is dated 30 September 1784.
Pianoforte by Johann Andreas Stein (Augsburg, 1775) – Berlin, Musikinstrumenten-Museum
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Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, violinist, and music theorist. He is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer
Piano Concerto No. 18 (Mozart)
…speculation was that Mozart had written this concerto for Maria Theresia von Paradis, based on a letter written around that time for his sister by their father. However, Hermann Ullrich has discounted this theory, based on the date of entry in Mozart's catalogue and the fact that von Paradis had left Paris at…
c. 1765 portrait
Mozart family
Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, wife of Leopold
Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart as a child (1763), said to be by Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni