Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: piano pieces, easiest first
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was born in Salzburg. As a small child he was already composing and playing the keyboard, and his father, Leopold, took him and his sister Nannerl on long tours of Europe's courts. In 1781 he settled in Vienna, where he wrote many of his best-known works: the operas The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, symphonies, piano concertos and much music for the piano. He died at 35.
His piano music sounds simple and is not: every note is heard, so it asks for clean, even fingers and a singing tone.
Mozart in Octotune
- The Minuet in F, K. 2, written when he was about six, one of his very first pieces.
- The Sonata in A, K. 331: the theme of its first movement, and its famous finale, the Rondo alla Turca.
- The first movement of the Sonata in C, K. 545.
- The Fantasia in D minor, K. 397, and the Gigue in G, K. 574, written in Leipzig in homage to Bach.
"K." is the number in Ludwig von Köchel's catalog of Mozart's works. They are listed below, easiest first.