Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 7 in C major, K. 309 (284b) (1777) is a piano sonata in three movements:
A typical performance takes about 16 minutes.
The work was composed during a journey to Mannheim and Paris in 1777–1778. In a letter to his father dated 24 October 1777, Mozart describes a concert where he played "a magnificent sonata in C major with a closing rondo, my own invention",Mersmann, Hans, Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, p. 41, Dover (1972), suggesting that the sonata was completed by October 1777. The andante movement is a "portrait" of his pupil Rose Cannabich, the 13-year-old daughter of the Mannheim Kapellmeister Christian Cannabich.Marshall, Robert, Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music, pp. 289–290, Routledge, New York (2003) Upon reviewing a copy of the manuscript, Mozart's father Leopold wrote that it was "a strange composition. It has something in it of the 'rather artificial' Mannheim style, but so very little that your own good style is not spoilt."Sadie, Stanley, Mozart: The Early Years 1756–1781, pp. 442–443, Oxford University Press (2006),
References
Further reading Mozart Sonata in C for piano K.309/284b, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, 1990
External links
(Alte Mozart-Ausgabe version) Performance of Piano Sonata No. 7 by Paavali Jumppanen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format