Sonata for piano four-hands, K. 497
1786 composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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The Sonata for piano four-hands in F major, K. 497, is a sonata for piano four-hands in three movements composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1786.
| Sonata for piano four-hands | |
|---|---|
| by W. A. Mozart | |
Mozart in 1789, drawing by Dora Stock | |
| Key | F major |
| Catalogue | K. 497 |
| Composed | 1786 |
| Movements | 3 |
The autograph manuscript of the sonata is preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.[1]
History
Mozart composed the sonata for piano four-hands in F major in Vienna in August 1786,[2][3] between composing his operas Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. He may have written it to play it with a student, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin' daughter Franziska von Jacquin.[2]
Movements
The sonata is structured in three movements:
- Adagio – Allegro di molto
- Andante
- Allegro
It is Mozart's only sonata for piano four-hand with a slow introduction to the first movement.[2]
Recordings on fortepianos include:
- George Malcolm, András Schiff. Mozart. Piano Music for 4 Hands. Label: London, 1993. Fortepiano by Anton Walter (Mozart's own).
- Rolf Junghanns, Bradford Tracey. Mozart, Beethoven, Weber. Vierhändige Klaviermusik von Mozart, Beethoven und Weber. Label: FSM. Fortepiano by Adlam & Burnett (Goudhurst) after Matthäus Heilmann (Mainz, c. 1780).
- Bart van Oort, Ursula Dütschler. Mozart. Label: Brilliant Classics, 2001. Fortepiano by Chris Maene (Ruiselede, 2000) after Walter (c. 1795).
- Yoshio Watanabe, Akiko Sakikawa. Mozart. Label: ALM Records, 2004. Fortepiano by Ferdinand Hofmann (Vienna, c. 1790-1795).
- Marie Kuijken, Veronica Kuijken. Mozart. Sonatas for Four Hands. Label: Challenge Classics, 2009. Fortepiano by Claude Kelecom after Johann Andreas Stein.
- Julian Perkins, Emma Abbate. Mozart. Piano Duets, Volume 2. Label: Resonus Classics, 2017. Fortepiano by Michael Rosenberger (Vienna, c. 1800).