Mozart’s Piano Sonata KV 331
Mozart composed about 20 solo piano sonatas, from roughly 1775 through the summer of 1789. Midway through that sequence is the Sonata in A, K 331. This sonata was one of three collectively published in …
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Yeol Eum Son Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto #21
Mozart completed his Concerto No. 21 only a month after his previous concerto. He would write four more in the next 21 months. Because Mozart wrote them for his own concert performances in Vienna, he …
Hilary Hahn Plays the Mozart Violin Sonata K 301
The Violin Sonata No. 18 in G Major by Mozart’s remains one of his warmest, most recognizable violin pieces. The first movement immediately proclaims the equality of violin and piano: the amiable melody is first …
Emil Gilels Performs the Piano Concerto #27 by Mozart
Mozart completed the piano concerto #27 in January of 1791, shortly before his thirty-fifth birthday. It was to be the last year of his life and his last piano concerto. He wrote it for himself …
Martha Argerich Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto #20
Mozart’s piano concerto KV466 was introduced to the world at one of the composer’s so-called academies, i.e., subscription concerts: “produced by and starring W.A. Mozart,” as we might say today. The success of the Concerto …