Project 366 - Listener Guide #12




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Summary: "Mozart: Sonatas for violin and piano" When considering Mozart’s violin sonata output, scholars are quick to distinguish his “childhood” sonatas (K 6-15 and K 26-31) from his “mature” sonatas (numbered 17 to 36), composed in the decade spanning 1778 and 1788. As we know, Mozart was adept at both the violin and piano and, if he was writing these to his level of prowess at the instrument, we have to ask ourselves who’s the boss in the Mozart sonatas for violin and piano – the violinist or the pianist? More at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/K3772931 [First time on our podcasting channel]