Reading for next few classes:
Robert Levin, "Mozart's Solo Keyboard Music," in Eighteenth-Century
Piano Music, read pp. 308-349. (over next few classes)
Rosenblum: pp. 362-392 (tempo flexibility)
Music (Scores and recordings not on reserve -- use your own or find
appropriate):
Sonata in D major, K. 284/205b (Munich, 1775)
Sonata in A minor, K. 310/300d (Paris, 1778)
Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman" (Paris,
1778)
Sonata in F major, K. 332/300k (Vienna, 1784)
Fantasie in D minor, K. 397
Each of these works is representative of a particular period in
Mozartís
short career: the D major represents the culmination of his early
virtuosity,
the A
minor may represent (according to Maynard Solomon) Mozartís
own devestation at his motherís death in Paris, and the F major
is one of the four great Sonatas that Mozart composed shortly after his
arrival in Vienna. Think about the structure and virtuosity of
the Variations in K. 284 and the stand-alone set on "Ah, vous..."