Mozart Piano Sons Vol 1

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Cat No: 8550445

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 0730099544528

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Mozart Piano Sons Vol 1

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310 Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 330 Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 533 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, theyoungest child of Leopold Mozart, author of a well known treatise on violin-playing and amusician in the service of the ruling Archbishop. Leopold Mozart was to sacrifice his owncareer in order to foster the God-given genius he soon perceived in his son. A childhoodspent in successful tours throughout Europe, in which the young Mozart demonstrated hisskill on the violin, and on the keyboard in improvisation and in performance with hissister Nannerl was followed by a less satisfactory adolescence at home in Salzburg.Mozart's talent was none the less, but there seemed little opportunity at home,particularly after the death of the old Archbishop and the succession of a less indulgentpatron. In 1777 Mozart and his father, now Vice-Kapellmeister, were refused leave totravel, and Mozart himself resigned his position as Konzertmeister of the court orchestraand set out, accompanied only by his mother, to seek his fortune elsewhere. The journeytook him to Augsburg, to Munich and eventually to Paris, but only after a prolonged stayin Mannheim, the seat of the Elector of Bavaria, famous for its musical establishment.In Mannheim Mozart made many friends among the musicians atcourt, but neither here nor in any of the other places he visited was there a suitableposition for him. The following year, after the death of his mother in Paris, he made hisway slowly back to Salzburg, where his father had found him another position at court thathe retained until 1781, when he found final precarious independence in Vienna. Thefollowing year he married the penniless younger sister of a singer on whom he had firstset his heart in Mannheim and won initial success with his German opera Die Entf??hrung aus dem Serail. There were pupils andsubscription concerts, and chances to arouse the admiration of fashionable audiences byhis skill as composer and keyboard-player in a new series of piano concertos. By the endof the decade, however, his popularity had waned, although there were signs of a change offortune in the success of a new German opera, Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), whichwas still running at the time of his sudden death in December 1791.Nothing is known of the circumstances of composition of one ofthe most important of Mozart's earlier piano sonatas, the >Sonata in A minor, K. 310. It bears the date 1778and was written in Paris, and therefore was composed at a time when Mozart had come tounderstand the futility of wasting more time in France, where he felt himself undervalued.During the course of the summer his mother died, a misfortune with which he was able tobear with a greater degree of maturity than might have been expected, breaking the newsgently enough to his father, at home in Salzburg. The A minor Sonata opens with aprincipal theme of some poignancy, the mood lighte
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