Piano Sonata No. 5 (Mozart)
The Sonata No. 5 in G major KV 283 (189h) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a piano sonata with three movements. It was composed during the trip to Munich for the production of the opera La finta giardiniera between late 1774 and March of the next year, when Mozart was 18 years old, and is the fifth of a cycle of six sonatas of increasing difficulty that are based on this Trip.
All three movements are in the main sonata form , and the average performance time is 18 minutes.
sentences
1st movement: Allegro
The first movement with its cheerful G major sound in the dynamic Allegro corresponds to the sonata form. It is worth mentioning that the development of 17 bars is very short in relation to the whole movement (120 bars). The unison runs in bars 16 and 22 in particular represent a brilliant sound effect that Mozart elaborates further in the ornate repetition and that he liked to use in other compositions.
2nd movement: Andante
In the second movement, with his simple Adagio in C major , Mozart uses brackets so that the repetition has to be played. As in the first sentence, the first motif is repeated immediately. In the forward-looking style of the 19th century, the theme in D minor and C major is processed first in the upper part and then in the bass. The last bars of the second movement work like a coda .
3rd movement: Presto
The spirited third movement is again composed in G major and with a clear sonata form and has a four-bar coda, with only an eighth dominant seventh chord in D major in the first bar and a G major final chord in the third bar. The other two measures contain phrases .
Web links
- Sonata in G KV 283 : Score in the New Mozart Edition
- Descriptions of the sonatas on G. Henle Verlag website
- Piano Sonata No. 5 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Recording by Paavali Jumppanen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format