Piano Sonata No. 15 (Mozart)

Piano Sonata in F major
No. 15
by W. A. Mozart
Drawing of Mozart in silverpoint by Dora Stock in 1789
Key	F major
Catalogue	K. 533
Style	Classical period
Composed	1788
Movements	Three (Allegro, Andante, Rondo: Allegretto)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 15 in F major, KV 533/494 (finished 3 January 1788) is a sonata in three movements:

1. Allegro
2. Andante in B-flat major
3. Rondo: Allegretto

A typical performance takes about 23 minutes.

The Rondo was originally a stand-alone piece composed by Mozart in 1786 (Rondo No. 2, K. 494 in the Köchel catalogue). In 1788, Mozart wrote the first two movements of K. 533 and incorporated a revised version of K. 494 as the finale, having lengthened it in order to provide a more substantial counterpart to the other two movements.^[1]

Opening of the sonata

Other arrangements[]

Edvard Grieg arranged this sonata for 2 pianos, by adding further accompaniment on the secondo part, whilst the primo part plays the original.^[2] This attempt to "impart to several of Mozart's sonatas a tonal effect appealing to our modern ears" serves to document the taste of Grieg's late nineteenth-century Norwegian audience.^[3] A notable recording is that of Elisabeth Leonskaja accompanied by Sviatoslav Richter.

Notes[]

External links[]

• Sonate in F KV 533/KV 494: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
• Piano Sonata No. 15: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Performance of Piano Sonata No. 15 by Jonathan Biss from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

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