Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived a short life of 35years at the end of the 18th century in classicism, but his music has been played most frequently and his life and work of art have been studied by numerous scholars for the past two hundred years.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived a short life of 35years at the end of the 18th century in classicism, but his music has been played most frequently and his life and work of art have been studied by numerous scholars for the past two hundred years.
Mozart left over six hundred pieces of music including operas, symphonies, concertos, chamber music, sonatas, and masses, and his genius shines through his piano music. He composed about eighteen piano sonatas. KV. 333 was composed during or immediately after his stay in Paris, and together with five other sonatas composed in the same period. It is recognized for its outstanding artistic value.
The present paper deals with Mozart's composition techniques, characteristics of his sonatas, and their performance alternatives with a focus on KV. 333, a typical Mozart sonata.
In accordance with the model of classicist sonatas, KV. 333 is composed of three movements: fast-slow-fast. The first movement in sonata Allegro form features a contrast between the lyrical first theme and the intensive second theme. Generally second movements of Mozart is very excellent. The second movement is also outstanding, and is characterized by the theme and its ornamental variation. The last movement of this sonata is a flowery rondo with cadenza and is marked by its concerto characteristics.
It is interesting to study the entire process in which a piece of music is created and written by a composer, and is performed by a musician. This paper attempts at a unified treatment of theory and practice by analyzing a piece of music from a theoretic and an aesthetic perspective by examining problems faced in actual practice, and by suggesting some performance alternatives.