Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 284

 

Mozart’s Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 284, written in Munich at the beginning of 1775, is the last of a group of six sonatas (K. 279-284) composed mainly in Salzburg but meant to be played shortly thereafter in Munich, where Mozart was to go for the production of his opera La finta giardiniera. The sonata was dedicated to Baron von Dürnitz, a Munich music-lover and pianist of refined tastes who, according to Alfred Einstein, asked Mozart for “something different and more brilliant, in the French style.” Whatever the baron’s personal requests may have been, it is in any case certain that this sonata is far and away the most interesting and well-developed of the six with respect to its rather orchestral texture and the richness and originality of its form as well as to its keyboard writing. The most remarkable part is surely the slow movement, a Rondeau en polonaise, in which the influence of the French style galant is clear. The finale is a sort of gavotte with twelve variations. It seems that Mozart particularly loved this sonata, which he mentioned several times in his letters.

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1. Allegro
2. Rondeau en Polonaise (Andante)
3. Tema - Variazioni I-XII

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