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===Improvisation as a time-saving device===

[[Volkmar Braunbehrens|Braunbehrens]] suggests that on at least one occasion, Mozart met a deadline by simply not writing down part of the music and improvising it instead while performing before the audience. This was evidently true of the [[Piano Concerto No. 26 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto in D, K. 537]], premiered 24 February 1788. In this work, the second movement opens with a solo passage for the pianist. The autograph (composer-written) score of the music gives the notes as follows:

{{Listen|type=music|filename=Mozart; Piano Concerto No. 26 in D Major, KV 537 "Coronation", 2. Larghetto.flac|title=Performance|description=By [[Lili Kraus]] in 1955}}

<score %vorbis%="1">

\new PianoStaff <<

\new Staff \relative c'' {