Sonata for piano and violin in A major KV 526
The sonata for piano and violin in A major KV 526 is a chamber music work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . It was originally referred to by Mozart as a piano sonata with accompaniment and was published on August 24, 1787 by Franz Anton Hoffmeister for the second year of his Prénumeration pour le Forte-piano, ou Clavecin .
The three-movement sonata is characterized by contemplation of death, as is repeated several times in Mozart's Don Giovanni and in some of the songs of 1787. It is divided into:
sentences
1st movement: Allegro molto
Both play in the first 20 bars, where the theme is introduced in unison . Then the piano takes over the upper hand up to and including bar 35, after which the violin dominates up to bar 41. Then the piano is in the foreground again up to bar 53, then the violin. From bar 65, the piano takes the lead again. From bar 66 Mozart modulates in E major, the tonic of the sonata, and the exposition ends in bar 100 . In the implementation , the material is processed, an interactive game between the piano and the violin takes place. In measure 147 the theme begins with an upbeat in the recapitulation . It roughly repeats the exposition, the main difference being that the recapitulation ends in the tonic.
2nd movement: Andante
In this movement, which is in the subdominant, there is a chromatic change between major and minor. Here there is an intimate relationship between the violin and the piano, with the violin being used more tenderly . An expression of pain can also be understood, since both Mozart's father Leopold and his violinist friend August Graf von Hatzfeld had died around this time. The theme is introduced in measure 16. After an interlude, the theme is used again in the dominant. A kind of implementation follows up to bar 64. The A part is used again and ends in the tonic.
3rd movement: Presto
This rapid movement is in A major and has a main motif that incorporates a theme quote from a trio by Carl Friedrich Abel , who had also died a few weeks earlier and was considered to be Mozart's London mentor. Both interpreters can put their technical skills to the test on the scales there. Even if the violin has its share, the piano is in the foreground. In bar 8 and bar 34 there are repeat symbols.