Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Sonata No. 10, in C Major, K. 330

 

It was long believed that Mozart composed his Piano Sonata No. 10, in C Major, K. 330, in Paris in the summer of 1778, but according to more recent studies it was written in Salzburg during the summer of 1780 or even in Munich or Vienna between 1781 and 1783. If this is true, the theory that it somehow demonstrates the composer’s assimilation of French style would lose much of its credibility; yet this sonata, together with the one in A minor, K. 310, and the one in A Major, K. 331 (with the Turkish March), is one of the most beloved and frequently performed of Mozart’s solo piano works. The sonata begins with a light, graceful Allegro moderato in 2/4 time and in purest style galant, whereas the second movement is an Andante cantabile in F Major, simple and direct in its expressivity but with a more tenderly passionate middle section in F minor. The composition ends with a rapid, refined, unostentatious Allegretto.

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1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante cantabile
3. Allegretto

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