Violin Sonata No. 17 (Mozart)

Violin Sonata No. 17 in C Major, K. 296, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 11 March 1778 in Mannheim, Germany and was first published in 1781 as part of Mozart's Opus 2 collection. It is the first work of his 'mature sonatas' (those not written in his childhood), which were written between 1778 and 1788. The work was dedicated to Josepha Barbara Auernhammer.

The work consists of three movements:

Allegro vivace
Andante sostenuto
Allegro

References

Zaslaw, Neal; Cowdery, William (1990). The Compleat Mozart: a Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New York: W.W. Norton.

External links

Sonata in C KV 296: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Violin Sonata No. 17: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Performance of Violin Sonata No. 17 by Benjamin Beilman (violin) and Yekwon Sunwoo (piano) from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

v t e Violin sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Childhood sets (1762–66)	Violin Sonatas, KV 6–9 Violin Sonatas, KV 10–15 Violin Sonatas, KV 26–31
Mature sonatas (1778–88)	No. 17 in C major, K. 296 No. 18 in G major, K. 301 No. 19 in E flat major, K. 302 No. 20 in C major, K. 303 No. 21 in E minor, K. 304 No. 22 in A major, K. 305 No. 23 in D major, K. 306 No. 24 in F major, K. 376 No. 25 in F major, K. 377 No. 26 in B flat major, K. 378 No. 27 in G major, K. 379 No. 28 in E flat major, K. 380 No. 29 in A major, K. 402 No. 30 in C major, K. 403 No. 31 in C major, K. 404 No. 32 in B flat major, K. 454 No. 33 in E flat major, K. 481 No. 35 in A major, K. 526 No. 36 in F major, K. 547 B flat major, K. 372
Spurious	Violin Sonatas, KV. 55-60 ^a Violin Sonata in A major, K. 61 ^b Violin Sonata in D major, K. deest ^a
^a Composer's name currently unknown. ^b Now attributed to Hermann Friedrich Raupach. List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart