Rondo in G Major

Item details

Description +
- Duration: 7 min.
  
  The G Major Rondo (originally in F) exists in two piano versions. It was initially composed as an isolated piano piece in 1786. Then a year later, in need of a third movement to finish his F Major Piano Sonata, K. 533, Mozart reworked this Rondo, adapting it to the highly contrapuntal style of his last and perhaps greatest Sonata. He changed articulations and added a soaring 27-bar fugal stretto, based on the first two measures of the opening theme to create, in effect, a cadenza that acts as a culmination of the work’s thematic development...
Instrumentation +
- Flute and Piano
About the composer +
- Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works that included sonatas, symphonies, masses, concertos and operas, marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures.
Credits +
- Front Cover graphics and layout: Gaia Gomes
  Photo of Robert Stallman: Lisa Kohler
  Engraving: Henrik Svitzer
  Painting of Mozart: Joseph Lange
  Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
  Copyright © Edition SVITZER
  www.editionsvitzer.com