Mozart I 

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..."