G. Henle Verlag Violin Sonatas, Volume I - Mozart/Seiffert/Rohrig - Violin/Piano - Book

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Editor: Wolf-Dieter Seiffert
Piano Fingering: Walther Lampe
Violin Bowing/Fingering: Karl Rohrig
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Violin and Piano

There is no other chamber-music genre for which Mozart produced so many works - see the sonatas and variations - than that of the duos for piano and violin. He spent a considerable amount of time with the sonatas, probing every sound and every thematic limit and combination. He also explored the possibility of pairing off the two instruments, thus creating music of pure, timeless beauty bound with dramatic power, elegance and emotional depth.

Volume I contains the six sonatas written by Mozart in Paris and on his journey there, and published in Paris as opus 1. Players might note the absence of the Sonata listed by Kochel as K. 296, but which was published simultaneously with the five pieces K. 376-380; it can be found in volume II of this edition.

Contents:

• Violin Sonata (Kurfurstin) G major op. I / KV 301 (293a)
• Violin Sonata (Kurfurstin) E flat major op. I / KV 302 (293b)
• Violin Sonata (Kurfurstin) C major op. I / KV 303 (293c)
• Violin Sonata (Kurfurstin) e minor op. I / KV 304 (300c)
• Violin Sonata (Kurfurstin) A major op. I / KV 305 (293d)
• Violin Sonata (Kurfurstin) D major op. I / KV 306 (300l)