Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314 (K. 285d)

Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major is an adaptation of the original oboe concerto.



For nearly two centuries, experts thought that Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314 (K. 285d) was originally composed for the flute in Mannheim in 1778. However, in 1952 Bernhard Paumgartner, musicologist, cogently proved that the flute concerto was the alteration of Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C major, K.314/271k, which was composed for Giuseppe Ferlendis, oboist in the Orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg.