Mozart wrote four concertos for horn and all were dedicates to Leitgeb, who remained a friend of Mozart until his death. Leitgeb's name appears in Mozart's last letter.
As a leading orchestra horn player, Leitgeb asked Mozart to write concertos for him from time to time, and succeeded in persuading him to write four pieces over Mozart's last 10 years.
All these concertos are similar in nature, indicating that Mozart was well versed in Leitgeb's taste.
"Concerto for horn & Orchestra No.4" may be inferior to No.3 in terms of the strong characteristic of the theme and compositional structure which is very appealing in No.3, like the piano concertos, but it is nonetheless an excellent piece, showing the spontaneous skill of Mozart in his mature period. In addition, Concerto No.4 requires a fairly elaborate technique for horn, considering the time in which it was written, by adopting a chromatic playing of rendition.
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