Mozart's Piano MusicMozart's emergence as a mature artist coincides with the rise to prominence of the piano, an instrument that came alive under his fingers and served as medium for many of his finest compositions. In Mozart's Piano Music, William Kinderman reconsiders common assumptions about Mozart's life and art while offering comprehensive and incisive commentary on the solo music and concertos. After placing Mozart's pianistic legacy in its larger biographical and cultural context, Kinderman addresses the lively gestural and structural aspects of Mozart's musical language and explores the nature of his creative process. Incorporating the most recent research throughout this encompassing study, Kinderman expertly surveys each of the major genres of the keyboard music, including the four-hand and two-piano works. Beyond examining issues such as Mozart's earliest childhood compositions, his musical rhetoric and expression, the social context of his Viennese concertos, and affinities between his piano works and operas, Kinderman's main emphasis falls on detailed discussion of selected individual compositions. |
Contents
The Piano Sonatas | |
K 309 K 311 and K 310 | |
K 33033 | |
Fantasia in C Minor K 475 and Sonata in C Minor K 457 | |
K 533 K 545 K 570 and K 576 | |
Variations and Miscellaneous Works | viii |
FourHand and TwoPiano Pieces | xxxvii |
TwoPiano and Duet Works of the Vienna Period | xliii |
Two Works in F Minor from 179091 | xlviii |
The Piano Concertos | lxx |
The Social and Political Context | lxxix |
K 466 to K 503 | vi |
K 537 and K 595 | xlii |
Index of Compositions | lxii |
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Adagio Alfred Brendel Allegretto Allegro Andante appoggiatura autograph score bars bass Beethoven beginning Bflat major C. P. E. Bach cadence cadential cadenza character chords chromatic chromaticism Cminor coda composed composition Concerto in Bflat context contrast D major descending dialogue dissonant dominant Don Giovanni eighth notes Einstein episode example expressive F major Fantasy finale Flute forte Fsharp G minor gesture harmony Haydn heard initial Johann left hand Leopold main theme measures melodic meter minuet motive Mozart Mozart’s concertos Mozart’s Piano Concertos MozartJahrbuch oboes octaves opening Allegro opening theme orchestral original passage pedal point performance phrase pianist Piano Duet piece pitch played recapitulation rhythm rhythmic ritornello rondo rondo theme Salzburg second subject group semitone sixteenth notes slow movement solo exposition soloist Sonata for Violin sonata form Sonata in G sonority strings style Symphony texture thematic tonal tonic trill turn figure University Press upbeat variations Vienna Wolfgang Zaslaw