Drawing of Mozart in silverpoint,
made by Dora Stock during Mozart's visit
to Dresden, April 1789
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart,[b] was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.
요제프 하이든과 더불어 18세기 빈 고전주의 악파의 대표적인 인물이며, 오페라, 실내악, 교향곡, 피아노 협주곡 등 여러 양식에 걸쳐 방대한 작품을 남겨 전시대를 통틀어 음악의 천재 중 한 사람으로 알려졌다.
1762년 첫번째 음악 여행에서 요한 크리스티안 바흐를 만났고 거기서 그의 첫번째 교향곡을 썼다. 1769년 이탈리아 여행에서 하이든의 현악 4중주를 보았고 첫번째 이탈리안 오페라를 썼다. 1780년대 후반 〈피가로의 결혼〉·〈돈 조반니〉·〈코지 판 투테〉등의 작품으로 그는 최고의 성공을 거두었다. 모차르트는 35살에 병으로 죽었는데, 이처럼 짧은 생애 동안 위대한 업적을 남긴 작곡가는 없다. [다음백과]
Violin Sonata No. 17 in C major, K. 296 (1778)
Violin Sonata No. 17 in C Major, K. 296, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 11 March 1778 in Mannheim, Germany and was first published in 1781 as part of Mozart's Opus 2 collection. It is the first work of his 'mature sonatas' (those not written in his childhood), which were written between 1778 and 1788. The work was dedicated to Josepha Barbara Auernhammer. The work consists of three movements: 1.Allegro vivace 2.Andante sostenuto 3.Allegro
========Description by Brian Robins [-] Mozart's sonatas for keyboard and violin fall into four groups: those composed as a child in Paris, London and The Hague; seven written during the trip to Mannheim and Paris between 1777 and 1778; five composed in 1781; and an additional three dating from later in the 1780s. The present work belongs to the second of these sets, having been composed in Mannheim in the spring of 1778. The extant autograph provides a date of March 11, just three days before Mozart and his mother finally left Mannheim to continue their long delayed journey to Paris. It also informs us that the sonata was composed for "Mademoiselle Therese." Therese Pierron was the stepdaughter of Privy Court Councillor Pierron, and a piano pupil of Mozart's, who played one of the keyboard parts of the Concerto for three pianos, K. 242 in a farewell concert for him given on March 12. The composer had stayed in Pierron's house for some time during his stay in Mannheim. Like all Mozart's sonatas with violin, it was described as being for "piano and violin," not the other way around. This is an important distinction that helps to underline the fact that it is the piano that has the dominant role, a feature emphasized by Mozart when he came to publish the C major Sonata in Vienna in 1781 along with five more recently composed works (K. 376, and K. 377-380) as his "Opus 2." The title page of Artaria's publication announces the sonatas as being for "Harpsichord or Piano with the accompaniment of Violin." Despite this, all but the juvenile sonatas achieve a more equal balance between the two instruments than is the case with many contemporary works. There are three movements: Allegro Vivace, Andante sostenuto, and Rondeau.
[2018. 5. 24]