The Concerto No. 10 for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E-flat major K. 365 plays a special role in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s oeuvre: alongside the Concerto for Two or Three Pianos K. 242, it is the only one written for more than one keyboard instrument. Mozart probably composed it in 1779, after his return from a trip to Mannheim and Paris. It was possibly intended for performances with himself and his sister as soloists. For the first time in a Mozart concerto, the bassoons are given their own parts which are often independent from the bass part.

This piano reduction complements the full score of this concerto which was already published in 1976 as part of the “New Mozart Edition”. This full score is still available alongside the corresponding performance material (BA05390). The meticulously prepared and well-manageable orchestral reduction by Martin Schelhaas (Pianoforte III) is new.

The piano reduction includes separate Urtext parts for the two solo pianos with the bass line for orchestral tutti passages included in both parts. With these a single copy of this edition suffices for the rehearsal of this concerto with a third piano (orchestral accompaniment), unlike older editions, of which three copies had to be available. A separately available booklet (BA10475-45) contains an older version of Mozart’s own cadenza (for one piano) as well as further cadenzas for the first and/or third movement by Johann Nepomuk Hummel (for one piano), Carl Reinecke, Camille Saint-Saëns, Josef Rheinberger and Reynaldo Hahn.