Mozart - Sonata for 2 Pianos KV 448

[gprengel]

I thought I knew all of Mozart's masterworks - I was wrong: Now I discovered this wonderful Sonata for 2 Pianos KV 448:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aFD18UwjFc

I cannot say how much I love it, especially the heavenly slow movement! In the middle part of the movement at 13:37 there is a wonderful theme and somehow I wonder whether I have heard it also in some other work from Mozart - does anyone of you know?

Gerd

[Peter]

The sonata in F k.497 and the variations in G k.501 are amongst Mozart's greatest for piano duet - also of interest is the fugue in C minor for 2 pianos k.426.

The theme you refer to sounds slightly like the slow section in the finale of piano concerto in Eb k.482 at 4.12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNeuVVhy5iQ

[Chris]

'Tis a good one! Now if I only had someone with whom to play it.

[gprengel]

The theme you refer to sounds slightly like the slow section in the finale of piano concerto in Eb k.482 at 4.12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNeuVVhy5iQ

No, now I know it - he used this wonderful theme 5 years before in the violin conderto movement KV 261:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zi3ZH9aRuE

Your mentioned Sonata KV 497 of course is fantastic, I love it for quite some time, but the other one you refered to (KV 501), I think, can hardly be compared to the great KV 448...

[Bakerlite]

It always strikes me as passing strange that a composer as prolific as Mozart had to recycle any of his other material. i guess a lot of composers did that but you have to wonder why.

[Peter]

It always strikes me as passing strange that a composer as prolific as Mozart had to recycle any of his other material. i guess a lot of composers did that but you have to wonder why.

Welcome Bakerlite!

Two reasons usually - firstly demand when a composer has to produce music to order and secondly when material considered good by a composer is wasted in an obscure earlier work and given new life.