Piano Sonata No. 7 (Mozart)

Piano Sonata in C major
Piano Sonata in C major
No. 7
by W. A. Mozart
	Coda Play (help·info).
Key	C major
Catalogue	K. 309 (284b)
Style	Classical period
Composed	1777
Movements	Three (Allegro con spirito, Andante un poco adagio, Rondo, Allegretto grazioso)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 7 in C major, K. 309 (284b) (1777) is a piano sonata in three movements:

Allegro con spirito
Andante un poco adagio (F major)
Rondo (allegretto grazioso)

A typical performance takes about 16 minutes.^{[citation needed]}

The work was composed during a journey to Mannheim and Paris in 1777-78. In a letter to his father dated October 24 1777, Mozart describes a concert where he played "a magnificent sonata in C major with a closing rondo, my own invention,"^[2] suggesting that the sonata was completed by October 1777. The andante movement is a "portrait" of his pupil Rose Cannabich, the 13-year-old daughter of the Mannheim Kapellmeister Christian Cannabich.^[3] Upon reviewing a copy of the manuscript, Mozart's father Leopold wrote that it was "a strange composition. It has something in it of the 'rather artificial' Mannheim style, but so very little that your own good style is not spoilt".^[4]

References[]

^ Benward & Saker (2009). Music in Theory and Practice: Volume II, p.151. Eighth Edition. ISBN 978-0-07-310188-0.
^ Mersmann, Hans, Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, p 41, Dover (1972), ISBN 0-486-22859-2
^ Marshall, Robert, Eighteenth-century keyboard music, p. 289-290, Routledge, New York (2003) ISBN 0-415-96642-6
^ Sadie, Stanley, Mozart: The Early Years 1756-1781, p 442-443, Oxford University (2006), ISBN 978-0-19-816529-3

Mozart Sonata in C for piano K.309/284b ISBN 978-1-85472-124-2

External links[]

Sonate in C KV 309: Score in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Piano sonata in C major, K. 309(284b) (interactive score) on Verovio Humdrum Viewer (Alte Mozart-Ausgabe version)
Performance of Piano Sonata No. 7 by Paavali Jumppanen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

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[1] Benward & Saker (2009). Music in Theory and Practice: Volume II, p.151. Eighth Edition. ISBN 978-0-07-310188-0.

[Mersmann72-2] Mersmann, Hans, Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, p 41, Dover (1972), ISBN 0-486-22859-2

[3] Marshall, Robert, Eighteenth-century keyboard music, p. 289-290, Routledge, New York (2003) ISBN 0-415-96642-6

[sadie6465-4] Sadie, Stanley, Mozart: The Early Years 1756-1781, p 442-443, Oxford University (2006), ISBN 978-0-19-816529-3

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Piano solo	No. 1 in C major, K. 279/189d No. 2 in F major, K. 280/189e No. 3 in B♭ major, K. 281/189f No. 4 in E♭ major, K. 282/189g No. 5 in G major, K. 283/189h No. 6 in D major, K. 284/205b No. 7 in C major, K. 309/284b No. 8 in A minor, K. 310/300d No. 9 in D major, K. 311/284c No. 10 in C major, K. 330/300h No. 11 in A major, K. 331/300i No. 12 in F major, K. 332/300k No. 13 in B♭ major, K. 333/315c No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 No. 15 in F major, K. 533/494 No. 16 in C major, K. 545 No. 17 in B♭ major, K. 570 No. 18 in D major, K. 576
Early	Sonata movements included in the London Sketchbook, K.15 a–ss
Two pianos	Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448
Piano four-hands	Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, K. 521
Spurious	"No. 19" in F major, K. 547a "No. 20" in B♭ major, K. 498a
Doubtful	Sonata in C major for keyboard four-hands, K. 19d
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Piano Sonata in C major
No. 7
by W. A. Mozart
Coda Play (help·info).^[1]
Key	C major
Catalogue	K. 309 (284b)
Style	Classical period
Composed	1777 (1777)
Movements	Three (Allegro con spirito, Andante un poco adagio, Rondo, Allegretto grazioso)