Piano Sonata No. 14 (Mozart)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K 457 is a sonata in three movements:
The C Minor Sonata is the most dramatic of the Mozart piano sonatas, and the only one to be composed in a minor key besides the great Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor (K. 310), which was written six years earlier, around the time of the death of Mozart's mother. The opening movement of the C Minor Sonata is symphonic in its conflict, while the spacious second movement makes use of a theme remarkably similar to that of the second movement, "Andante cantabile," of Beethoven's own great C minor sonata, the Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, "Pathetique". Indeed, Mozart's sonata feels in several ways prophetic of the Pathétique (which it pre-dates by roughly fifteen years), and both works share a similar overall plan. In performance, Mozart's sonata is often accompanied by the Fantasy No. 4, K. 475, which is also in C minor and which was published together with the sonata. It is said, that Mozart wrote the Fantasia as a reconstruction of the improvisation he made before writing the sonata.
| Piano Sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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| C Major K. 279 | C Major K. 280 | B flat Major K. 281 | E flat Major K. 282 | G Major K. 283 | D Major K. 284 | C Major K. 309 | A Minor K. 310 | D Major K. 311 | C Major K. 330 | A Major K. 331 | F Major K. 332 | B flat Major K. 333 | C Minor K. 457 | F Major K. 533/494 | C Major K. 545 | F Major K. 547a | B flat Major K. 570 | D Major K. 576 |
