One feels transported to Mozart's sound world when listening to one of the nine surviving and almost forgotten violin concertos by Josef Mysliveček.
Mysliveček is a contemporary of Mozart. The two also met several times on their professional travels, and Mozart knew and greatly appreciated the music of this friend who was 20 years his senior. Mysliveček's violin concertos in particular seem to have influenced Mozart's violin concertos.
Josef Mysliveček's life was initially very successful. After leaving his hometown of Prague, where he also learned to play the violin and practised as a violinist, and giving up his profession as a miller inherited from his father, he became one of the most famous opera-seria composers in Italy at the time. Because of his name, which was unpronounceable for Italians, he was called Divino Boemo. Was this great success good for him? A modest inscription for Rome can be found today in the church of San Lorenzo in Latina on the Corso. Il Boemo is said to have died impoverished, forgotten and seriously ill with syphilis in Rome in 1781. Mozart describes his last encounter with Mysliveček in 1777 in a hospital in Munich as follows:
"when his illness was at its worst
he went on an opera to Padua. there is no use, it is said even that
the doctors and surgeons here have corrupted him.
It is just a formal beincancer. The surgeon Caco, the
Caco, the donkey, burnt off his nose; imagine the pain".
But Mozart adds and characterises him quite personally:
"if it were not for his face, he would be completely the same; full of fire, spirit and life".
(Mozart's letter to his father of 11 October 1777).
Full of fire, spirit and life, this is exactly how his Violin Concerto in D major, selected here, comes across. Mozart must have known the main theme, for he begins his own violin concerto in D major with the same motif (K. 218).

Here you can hear it!
1st Allegro
2nd Larghetto
3rd Allegro