Wolfgang A. Mozart Piano Sonatas

Classical Music / Piano Sonatas

 

Over his short life, Mozart composed 18 numbered piano sonatas, sonatas for four hands, 36 violin sonatas, and 17 Church Sonatas, as well as trio sonatas for chamber instruments.

Mozart’s piano sonatas date from 1773 until 1788, with his style maturing at a truly remarkable rate. The earliest sonatas are very much in the galant style of W.F and CPE Bach, and in places Scarlatti’s influence can be detected. The late sonatas, such as K457, are full of surprises, with 'Papa' Haydn's influence to the fore. The years from 1773 to the late 80s saw the rapid development of the piano from a novelty and experimental instrument, to the stage where its power and range provided composers with a palate of colours and expression. Mozart exploited the new instruments to maximum effect in his concertos and his sonatas.

Below is Wolfgang A. Mozart's Complete Piano Sonatas / Piano Pieces - Youtube. Sorry, it's an unknown recording.




Please refer to videos below for other Mozart Sonatas links.  

Mozart 6 Sonatinas: Viennese Sonatinas KV 439b for Piano

Classical Music / Mozart Piano Sonatinas

These 'Viennese Sonatinas' have been widely accepted into the standard teaching repertoire for Mozart's keyboard music.

Arguably the greatest composer, Mozart developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the melancholy and  passionate. He composed over 600 works, acknowledged as pinnacles of operatic, symphonic, concertante, chamber, and choral music. His influence on Western art music is profound being among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

This set of six Sonatinas were thought to have been written after 1783 in Vienna. For your listening pleasure, I've chosen the brilliant interpretation by Cyprien Katsaris, French-Cypriot virtuoso pianist.

Note: The playlist is shuffled, and could play a piece from any of the 6 sonatinas. A link  for those who want to play all -  here.  

Mozart's Six Sonatinas:

1. Sonatina No. 1 in C major.
2. Sonatina No. 2 in A major.
3. Sonatina No. 3 in D major.
4. Sonatina No. 4 in B-flat major.
5. Sonatina No. 5 in F major.
6. Sonatina No. 6 in C major.

Video Credit:

Mozart: The Six Viennese Sonatinas.  YouTube, uploaded by Classicool. Accessed August 16, 2017.

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Mozart Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-Flat major, K. 378

Classical Music / Sonata for Violin and Piano, K. 378

Violin and piano sonata No. 26 in B-flat major, K. 378 (K. 317d) by Mozart, interpreted by Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) and Lambert Orkis (piano).

Wolfgang A. Mozart composed more than a dozen or so sonatas for piano and violin. He started writing them in the 1760s (he wasn't even a teenager) and continued writing them in 1781, the year he left Salzburg and moved to Vienna, never to return to his city of birth. Some of these sonatas include the six Mannheim Sonatas of 1778, and Mozart's four glorious late works during the mid- and late 1780s.





Violin and Piano Sonata No. 26 in B-flat major, K. 317d (formerly K. 378), comes from the 1781 set. Some biographers seem to think that the piece might have been composed two years earlier, that is, in 1779, while he was still in Salzburg.