Mozart

Piano Literature : Sonatas and Variations

Lecture V: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

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Sonatas and Sonata Allegros

Movement Structures

Sonata Allegro or modified Sonata Allegro
Aria with Elaboration (Theme and Variation) - KV. 311, 332
Dance (Gigue, Minuet, Polonaise) - KV. 282, 284, 331
Theme and Variations - KV. 284, 331
Rondo (Variations and Interludes) - KV. 281, 309, 311
Concerto Rondo with Cadenza - KV. 333, 494

Editions of the Mozart Piano Sonatas
Nathan Broder/Presser (1963)
Ernst Herttrich/Henle Urtext (1977)
Karl-Heinz FUssl/Vienna Urtext ( 1982)
Wolfgang Plath & Wolfgang Rehm/Barenreiter (1986)

Ornamentation and Embellishment Sources
Eva and Paul Badura-Skoda: Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard
(New York: SL .Martin's Press, 1963)
Frederick Neumann: Ornamentation and Improvisation in Mozart
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986)

Mozart's Variation Technique

Variation as an extension of the Operatic Cadenza
Incipient Structure

Theme =      Exposition
Variations = Development
Minore =     Interlude
Presto =     Recapitulation & Coda

Sonatas
K¹	K⁶	Composition	Date	Place
Solo Keyboard
279	189d	Sonata in C for Keyboard	Early 1775	Munich
280	189e	Sonata in F for Keyboard	Early 1775	Munich
281	189f	Sonata in B flat for Keyboard	Early 1775	Munich
282	189g	Sonata in E flat for Keyboard	Early 1775	Munich
283	189h	Sonata in G for Keyboard	Early 1775	Munich
284	205b	Sonata in D for Keyboard, "Durnitz"	Feb.-March 1775	Munich
309	284b	Sonata in C for Keyboard	Oct.-Nov. 1777	Mannheim
311	284c	Sonata in D for Keyboard	November 1777	Mannheim
310	300d	Sonata in A minor for Keyboard	Summer 1778	Paris
330	300h	Sonata in C for Keyboard	1781-83	Munich or Vienna
331	300i	Sonata in A for Keyboard	1781-83	Munich or Vienna
332	300k	Sonata in F for Keyboard	1781-83	Munich or Vienna
333	315c	Sonata in B flat for Keyboard, "Linz"	1783-84	Linz and Vienna
457	457	Sonata in C minor for Keyboard	Oct. 14, 1784	Vienna
533	533	Allegro and Andante in F for Keyboard	Jan. 3, 1788	Vienna
Anh. 135	547a	Allegro and Allegretto in F major (transcriptions)	Summer 1788	Vienna
545	545	Sonata for Keyboard in C, "For Beginners"	June 16, 1788	Vienna
570	570	Sonata in B flat for Keyboard	February 1789	Vienna
576	576	Sonata in D for Keyboard	July 1789	Vienna
Keyboard Four-Hands
	19d	Sonata in C for Keyboard Four-Hands	May 1765	London
381	123a	Sonata in D for Keyboard Four-Hands	Mid 1772	Salzburg
358	186c	Sonata in B Flat for Keyboard Four-Hands	Late 1773-early 1774	Salzburg
497	497	Sonata in F for Keyboard Four-Hands	Aug. 1, 1786	Vienna
521	521	Sonata in C for Keyboard Four-Hands	May 29, 1787	Vienna
Two Keyboards
448	375a	Sonata in D for Two Keyboards	November 1781	Vienna

Variations
K¹	K⁶	Composition	Date	Place
Solo Keyboard
24	24	8 Variations in G on a Dutch song by Graaf	January 1766	The Hague
25	25	7 Variations in D on a Dutch song	February 1766	Amsterdam
180	173c	6 Variations in G on "Mio caro Adone"	Autumn 1773	Vienna
179	189a	12 Variations in C on a Minuet by Fischer	Summer 1774	Salzburg
354	299a	12 Variations for Piano on "Je suis Lindor"	Early 1778	Paris
264	315d	9 Variations in C on "Lison dormait" by Dezede	Late summer 1778	Paris
352	374c	8 Variations in F on "Dieu d'amour" by Gretry	June 1781	Vienna
265	300e	12 Variations in C on "Ah vous dirai-je"	1781-82	Vienna
353	300f	12 Variations in E flat on "La belle Francoise"	1781-82	Vienna
398	416e	6 Variations on an Aria by Paisiello	March 1783	Vienna
460	454a	8 Variations on "Come un agnello"	June 1784	Vienna
455	455	10 Variations in G on an Arietta by Gluck	Aug. 25, 1784	Vienna
500	500	12 Variations in B flat on an Allegretto	Sept. 12, 1786	Vienna
54	547b	5 (6?) Variations in F for Piano	July 1788	Vienna
573	573	9 Variations in D on a Menuett by Duport	April 29, 1789	Potsdam
613	613	8 Variations in F on a Lied by Schack	March 1791	Vienna
Keyboard Four-Hands
501	501	5 Variations in G	Nov. 4, 1786	Vienna

Miscellaneous
K¹	K⁶	Composition	Date	Place
Solo Keyboard
	1a	Andante in C for Keyboard	Early 1761	Salzburg
	1b	Allegro in C for Keyboard	Early 1761	Salzburg
	1c	Allegro in F for Keyboard	Dec. 11, 1761	Salzburg
	1d	Minuet in F for Keyboard	Dec. 16, 1761	Salzburg
1	1e	Minuet in G for Keyboard	Dec.-Jan. 1761-62	Salzburg
1	1f	Minuet in C for Keyboard	Dec.-Jan. 1761-62	Salzburg
2	2	Minuet in F for Keyboard	January 1762	Salzburg
3	3	Allegro in B flat for Keyboard	March 4, 1762	Salzburg
4	4	Minuet in F for Keyboard	May 11, 1762	Salzburg
5	5	Minuet in F for Keyboard	July 5, 1762	Salzburg
	5a	Allegro in C for Keyboard	Summer 1763
	33B	Piece in F for Keyboard	October 1766	Zurich
94	73h	Minuet in D	1769	Salzburg
	315g	8 Minuets	Lat 1773	Salzburg
395	300g	Capriccio in C for Keyboard	October 1777	Munich
394	383a	Prelude and Fugue in C for Keyboard	Early 1782	Vienna
	453a	Funeral March in C minor for Keyboard	1784	Vienna
475	475	Fantasia for Piano in C minor	May 20, 1785	Vienna
485	485	Rondo in D for Keyboard	Jan. 10, 1786	Vienna
494	494	Rondo in F for Keyboard	June 10, 1786	Vienna
355	576b	Minuet in D for Keyboard	1786-87	Vienna
511	511	Rondo for Piano in A minor	March 11, 1787	Vienna
540	540	Adagio in B minor for Keyboard	March 19, 1788	Vienna
574	574	Kleine Gigue in G for Keyboard	May 16, 1789	Leipzig
236	588b	Andantino in E flat for Keyboard	?c1790	Vienna
Two Keyboards
426	426	Fugue in C minor for Two Keyboards	Dec. 29, 1783	Vienna
Mechanical Organ or Glass-harmonica
594	594	Adagio and Allegro in F minor for a Mechanical Organ	Oct.-Dec. 1790	Vienna and elsewhere
608	608	Fantasia in F minor for a Mechanical Organ	March 3, 1791	Vienna
616	616	Andante in F for a Small Mechanical Organ	May 4, 1791	Vienna
356	617a	Adagio in C for Glass Harmonica	1791	Vienna

Listening List V

Clementi	Sonata in G minor op. 50 #3 "Didone abbandonata"
Dussek	Sonata in A-flat major op. 70 "Le Retour a Paris "
	Sonata in F minor op. 77 "L'invocation"

Czech Proto-Romanticism and
the London Pianoforte School