Piano Sonata No. 12 (Mozart)
The Piano Sonata in F major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 332/300k, was written at the same time as the Piano Sonata, K. 330 and Piano Sonata, K. 331 (Alla turca), Mozart numbering them as a set from one to three. They were once believed to have been written in the late 1770s in Paris, but it is now thought more likely that they date from 1783.[1] Vienna has been suggested as a possible place of composition, with others believing the sonatas were written during a visit to Salzburg where Mozart introduced his wife, Constanze, to his father, Leopold. All three sonatas were published in Vienna in 1784.
Form
The sonata is in three movements and has a conventional structure:
- Allegro - in sonata form
- Adagio - a slow movement in the key of B flat major
- Allegro assai - in sonata form
A typical performance takes about 18 minutes (25 minutes with repeats).
The first movement is in a classical sonata form.[2]
The second movement (Adagio) is two halves repeated. In the autograph, the second half is essentially a repeat of its initial presentation with some minor tonal adjustments. In the earliest printed editions, however, it is considerably elaborated.
The rapid finale is in 6/8 time. While it starts out with a forte chord and passagework, it concludes with a pianissimo cadence.
References
- ^ Tyson, Alan (1987). Mozart: studies of the autograph scores. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. pp. 21–35. ISBN 0-674-58830-4.
- ^ Hepokoski, James; Darcy, Warren (2006). Elements of Sonata Theory: norms, types, and deformations in the late eighteenth-century sonata. Oxford University Press. pp. 159–162. ISBN 0-19-514640-9.
External links
- Sonate in F KV 332: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
- Free scores by Piano Sonata No. 12 at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)