What was the last piano concerto Mozart wrote in Vienna and which inspired Beethovens 5th Symphony?
This reference sites Mozart’s last SYMPHONY which inspired Beethoven’s 5th, and actually has elements lifted from Mozart’s work. The 19th century musicologist Gustav Nottebohm first pointed out that this theme has the same sequence of pitches (though in a different key and range) as the opening theme of the final movement of Mozart’s famous Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550. While such resemblances sometimes occur by accident, this is unlikely to be so in the present case. Nottebohm discovered the resemblance when he examined a sketchbook used by Beethoven in composing the Fifth Symphony: here, 29 measures of Mozart’s finale appear, copied out by Beethoven http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Beethoven) At the time of this symphony?s composition, in the first half of 1788 when Mozart?s creative powers were at their peak, his everyday life suddenly began to deteriorate. …After 1788, Mozart would never again perform a public concert in Vienna, and his desperate financial situa
