Mozart - Violin Sonata No 23 in D Major, K. 306

Mozart

 Violin Sonata No 23 in D Major, K. 306

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Sonata #23 in D Major, K. 306, was completed in 1778.

The sonata contains three movements:[

1] Allegro con Spirito, D Major, 4 4 Andantino, G Major, 3 4 Allegretto 2 4 - Allegro 6 8, D Major

All the preceding works of the set follow the two movement scheme favored by composers such as Bach, conforming to the domestic type of sonata with which performers might well amuse themselves à deux, but with the D major Sonata Mozart turned his attention to a different kind of work. Composed in Paris during the summer of 1778, it is a large-scale piece cast in three movements, its grander, more expansive gestures announcing what Alfred Einstein has called "a great concert sonata." The bold opening Allegro con spirito is followed by an Andante cantabile in which the violin's lyrical lines hark back to the violin concertos composed in Salzburg three years earlier, while the final Allegretto looks forward to the operas of the following decade, the fluctuating tempos recalling one of the great scenas and encompassing a written-out cadenza for both instruments. Whether or not Mozart himself used the sonata in concert is not known. It was published in Paris later in 1778 as "opus 1, No's 1-6," the title page bearing a dedication to Maria Elisabeth, Electress of the Palatinate. For this reason they are frequently known as the "Palatine Sonatas."