CCCLXXVII. MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
Hard to believe, but this is Mozart's only instrumental work in this key!
Written at the time of his mother's death ...
First Movement
The first twelve bars are in unsion:
A move to the relative major (G) is refreshing:
The development begins in B Minor:
The recap features new piano accompaniment:
The coda features unisons again, and closes firmly:
Second Movement
This is no happy-go-lucky minuet! The piano begins alone, and the music feels mournful, elegiac ...
In the second section, Mozart seems to go out of his way to avoid the authentic cadence which would confirm the key of G Major -- the three blue boxes show brief ones ...
Ah ... now comes the moment we've been waiting for -- the sunshine of the Trio, where Mozart moves to the parallel major (E) and inserts the subdominant chord (A) with the major seventh (G-Sharp):
" . . . the unforgettable trio section is in E Major, music of almost unbearable poignancy and Schubertian loveliness." -- Alec Hyatt King
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