Two months before his death in October 1791, Mozart completed the Clarinet Concerto, his last concerto and final major work. In the final period of his life, Mozart suffered poor health, domestic problems and financial difficulties. Despite these intrusive problems, or perhaps because of them, the concerto has a remarkable, other worldly serenity and beauty. This concerto is easily the greatest clarinet concerto and, for that matter, the greatest concerto ever written for any wind instrument.