I'm gonna step out on a limb here and say that this Sonata by Mozart is his
best Sonata - and that it ranks up there with the best music ever written.
The reason I say 'step out on a limb' is because I have not read through
all of his Sonatas. So I'm making a call early in the game - and that can
be tricky - and even wrong.
But this post is not really about the first two movements.
It is about the Third Movement.
The Allegretto.
Yes - the first movement - the Allegro Moderato - is so perfect.
The second movement - the Andante Cantabile (and every second
movement of a Sonata should be Andante Cantabile) is so beautiful -
yet in control and not spilling over with Passion (and you know who
you are Beethoven) - that it scarcely can be touched .
Rather it is in the third movement - the Allegretto - where I believe that
Mozart simply got bored. After all - he must have thought - I have given
them two movements of perfection and isn't there a party tonight at the
local pub where I can hoist a few?
But Mozart was no dummy. He knew that if he didn't at least include a
third movement it might not make the Sonata Piano Books.
So I'm thinking he simply wrote the Allegretto to get it out of the way - and
who knows folks ?
Maybe some other genius piece of work was starting to crowd its way into
his brilliant composer mind - and he wanted to work on that before he lost it.
or maybe it was the party....
I guess we'll really never know.
I do know one thing though folks - I thank God for giving us Mozart.
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