Piano Concerto no. 11 in F major, K. 413

One of three concertos, K. 413–415, that Mozart offered by subscription in Vienna in the winter of 1782–83, his first attempt to sell music directly to the public rather than to a court. He advertised them as playable with a string quartet alone, so that amateurs could buy them, and described them to his father as standing between too difficult and too easy: brilliant, pleasant to the ear, but with passages that would satisfy connoisseurs. The subscriptions came in slowly. K. 413 is the most modest of the three, opening in a lilting triple metre.