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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Rondo a-moll K.511

Work Overview

Music ID : 305
Composition Year:1787 
Publication Year:1789
First Publisher:Hoffmeister
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:rondo
Total Playing Time:10 min 00 sec
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : PTNA Piano Encyclopedia Editorial Department

Last Updated: January 1, 2010
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

A work from 1787, when Mozart was 31 years old. This is one of the few piano pieces composed by Mozart in this year, following the creation of the grand opera The Marriage of Figaro in the previous year and Don Giovanni in the same year. A beautiful, melancholic melody unfolds over a simple 6/8 accompaniment. Various free musical ideas develop in different keys, framed by an eight-bar theme. Mozart's extraordinary talent is particularly evident in the flowing F major section, which contains numerous chromatic passages.

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