Piano Sonata No. 12 (Mozart)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (posthumous portrait by Barbara Krafft )

The Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major KV 332 / 300k by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was released at the same time as Sonata No. 10 in C major KV 330 (300h) and Sonata No. 11 in A major KV 331 (300i) ( Alla turca ). Presumably these were written in Paris in the late 1770s. However, these were dated to the year 1783, when Mozart moved to Vienna , and published with the other two sonatas in 1784 by Artaria Verlag.

The average performance including all repetitions is around 25 minutes.

sentences

1st movement: Allegro

The cantable opening theme of the first movement consists primarily of broken triads in the right hand, with the left hand playing an Alberti bass in the meantime . The postscript is twice as long (eight bars) and goes up to bar twelve. In the following bars, the theme is processed motivically up to bar 20. The transition to the secondary theme lasts up to and including bar 40, with the modulation going through C minor and G major . The eighth notes are distinctive for the secondary theme, which is in C major . Here, too, the suffix is ​​twice as long as the antecedent. Then used Mozart motivic elements of the second subject before the final group, the exposure ended. In 39 cycles implementation with a clear bottom case sequence in clocks 60-65 the motives over C minor and D minor processed before the recapitulation completely in the tonic is reproduced.

Although Mozart basically adheres to the sonata form , with numerous original ideas, such as the formation of hemioles in bars 64/65 and the beginning of the development with a new thematic idea, some of which are reminiscent of Haydn , he proves a self-confident freedom of interpretation in the Use of the sonata form.

2nd movement: Adagio

In the second movement, Mozart proves his art in variation and a four-bar motif is constantly being redesigned. With two minor turns, Mozart creates a tragic tension in the otherwise idyllic work. Mozart reached D major twice via detours . The formal scheme of the sentence is A – B – A – B.

3rd movement: Allegro assai

In the unusually extended third movement in pure sonata form, the six-bar theme is repeated twice up to bar twelve. After two bars the four-bar secondary theme follows, which appears changed several times; these are separated by small sequences. In bar 42 another theme appears in C minor. The exposition then ends with runs and C major chords. In the 47 bars of the development, the motifs in B flat minor and D major reappear. This is followed by the recapitulation, which ends in the tonic in F major.

The third movement is one of the most difficult and virtuoso works of Mozart and in 6/8 time rhythm with a new fifth case sequence in bars 46–48, some passages of the later “hunting finals” of some piano concertos can be recognized.

literature

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sonatas and Three Fantasias , Urtext edition, for piano, Kalmus Classic Edition. ISBN 0-7692-4089-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alan Tyson: Mozart: Studies of the autograph scores . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1987, ISBN 0-674-58830-4 , pp. 21-35.