Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

's Piano Sonata

Piano sonata

A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement , two movements , five or even more movements...

 No. 10 in C major

C major

C major is a musical major scale based on C, with pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Its key signature has no flats/sharps.Its relative minor is A minor, and its parallel minor is C minor....

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Köchel-Verzeichnis

The Köchel-Verzeichnis is a complete, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart which was originally created by Ludwig von Köchel. It is abbreviated K or KV. For example, Mozart's Requiem in D minor was, according to Köchel's counting, the 626th piece Mozart composed....

 330 (300h) is among one of the three works in the cycle of piano sonatas K.330-332. The sonata was composed in 1783, when Mozart was twenty-seven years old. A typical performance of this sonata lasts around twenty minutes.

The work is considered one of Mozart's most popular piano sonatas, and has been featured in classical music-related films, such as Sparky's Magic Piano

Sparky's Magic Piano

Sparky's Magic Piano is the second in a series of children’s audio stories featuring Sparky, an original character created for Capitol Records in 1947. Sparky is a little boy with an overactive imagination...

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Movements

The sonata is in three movements

Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...

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1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante cantabile
3. Allegretto

I: Allegro moderato

The first movement typically takes about five minutes to nine minutes to perform. Basically, the movement shows a happy, playful mood.

The movement is composed of a main theme, a bridge and a recapitulation of the main theme.

The main theme starts in key of C major, modulates to G major

G major

G major is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Its key signature has one sharp, F; in treble-clef key signatures, the sharp-symbol for F is usually placed on the first line from the top, though in some Baroque music it is placed on the first space from the bottom...

, and stays in G major. The bridge is intense and shows clever passages and modulations. In the recapitulation, the main theme starts in C major, modulates to G major, and then modulates back to C major.

II: Andante cantabile

The second movement takes between five and seven minutes to perform. The very end of the movement which Mozart wrote was misplaced. Editors have resolved to employ the best possible "Mozart" idea to replace the lost autograph.

III: Allegretto

The third movement is the most energetic movement among the movements in the sonata. Performance times range from three to five minutes. Use of arpeggios is prevalent throughout the piece. Like the second movement, the last few bars were lost in the autograph as well; editors tried again to employ a "Mozart" idea to replace the lost content.

Media

External links

• Piano Sonata No. 10 sheet music is available at Musopen.com
• Audio recording available at Musopen.com