Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
's set of six sonatas for keyboard and violin,
K. 26–31 were composed in early 1766 in
The Hague
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during the
Mozart family's grand tour of Europe. They were dedicated to
Princess Caroline of Nassau-Weilburg on the occasion of the eighteenth birthday of her brother,
William V, Prince of Orange
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.
[Sadie, Stanley. Mozart: The Early Years, 1756–1781, p. 94–108, New York: W.W. Norton & Co. (2006) .] They were published as Mozart's "Opus 4".
These works show an improvement in compositional technique over the sets for
Paris
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(
K. 6–9) and
London
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(
K. 10–15),
[ although like the previous sets, the keyboard part dominates and the violin may be considered optional.
Mozart composed all three early sets of accompanied sonatas while touring northwest Europe. These types of sonatas were not favored at home in Salzburg.][ Mozart would not revisit this genre until 1777–78 on a trip to ]Mannheim
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and Paris.
Sonata in E-flat, K. 26
Sonata in G, K. 27
Sonata in C, K. 28
Sonata in D, K. 29
Sonata in F, K. 30
Sonata in B-flat, K. 31
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