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Portrait (1789, two years before his death) of Mozart in silverpoint by Doris Stock. On 5 December 1791, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at his home in Vienna, Austria, at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have attracted much research and speculation. The principal sources of contention are:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 / 300d, was written in 1778. The sonata is the first of only two Mozart piano sonatas in a minor key (the other being No. 14 in C minor, K. 457). It was composed in the summer of 1778 around the time of his mother's death, one of the most tragic times of his life. [1]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time.
This is a list of the sonatas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 (so-called facile or semplice sonata; Vienna, Jun. 26, 1788)
The work was written during Mozart's stay in Munich from December 1774 to March 1775 for the production of La finta giardiniera. It is the only one of Mozart's six Munich piano sonatas to be published in his lifetime, ten years later. [1] The autograph and the first edition of the sonata have numerous inconsistencies.
The Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major, K. 576, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as part of a set of six for Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia in 1789. [1] It is often nicknamed "The Hunt" or "The Trumpet Sonata", for the hornlike opening. [2] The sonata, having a typical performance duration of about 15 minutes, is Mozart's last. It ...
This is a list of solo piano pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. [1] ... Sonatas. Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, K. 279/189d (Munich, Autumn 1774) Piano Sonata No. 2 ...
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor is only one of two sonatas Mozart wrote in a minor key, the other being the Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310, which was written six years earlier, around the time of the death of Mozart's mother. Mozart was extremely deliberate in choosing tonalities for his compositions; therefore, his choice of C minor ...