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Piano Sonata No. 2 in F major, K. 280

177510 min

This guide follows Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in F major, K. 280 (1775) in three parts: Allegro assai (sonata form), Adagio (sonata form) and Presto (sonata form).

Recording: Szymon Nehring (piano)

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  1. I · Sonata form
  2. II · Sonata form
  3. III · Sonata form
I Sonata form0:22–3:38

A brisk in three-four. The first starts with a loud arpeggiated chord and three thirds, followed by falling notes over an Alberti bass (a broken-chord accompaniment). The runs in triplets with a bold of falling fifths, and the speeds the motion into offset sixteenth-note garlands. A closes the . The is short: it lasts 26 , and the that follows is more elaborate.

IISonata form3:53–7:54
IIISonata form7:57–10:02

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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Wolfgang Amadeus MozartPiano sonatasClassical periodF majorSonata form

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