Mozart assembled this sonata from two parts that had been composed at different times. The Rondo K. 494 is from 1786. It was only in January 1788 that Mozart composed the two pieces K. 533, and had Hoffmeister in Vienna publish the three movements as a sonata.
To this end he did, however, thoroughly rework the Rondo, incorporating a small fugue-like passage – perhaps to bring the finale closer to the other two movements. In its final version, the work shows how intensively Mozart had looked into the style of Bach and Handel at the time. We are now offering this sonata, included in the complete volume, as an attractive single edition with a new preface by the editor.
For
Piano
Musical Editions
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.
582834
Author / Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Editor
Ernst Herttrich
Level
difficult
Scope
25 pages; 23.5 × 31 cm
Release year
2011

Schubert’s 22 piano sonatas sketch a very illuminating picture of the prematurely departed composer’s compositional path. From the first essays of the gifted young 16- to 19-year old, one can trace a continuous development leading to the five great sonatas which he wrote in the years 1823 and 1826, and finally to the three masterworks written shortly before his death, which place him on a level with Beethoven as a composer of sonatas. Volume I of the three-volume Henle Urtext edition of Franz Schubert’s piano sonatas contains seven sonatas from the two earlier periods as well, which all became known with opus numbers. Only two were published during Schubert’s lifetime. The book opens with what is no doubt the best-known sonata of these two periods, the A-major Sonata D 664 op. post. 120. Given the length of time between the composition of each – 1817, 1823, 1825 – the works present a great diversity of forms and expression.