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Sonata for piano four-hands
by W. A. Mozart
Mozart in 1789, drawing by Dora Stock
KeyF major
CatalogueK. 497
Composed1786 (1786)
Movements3

The Sonata for piano four-hands in F major, K. 497, is a sonata for piano four-hands in three movements composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1786.

The autograph manuscript of the sonata is preserved in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.[1]

History

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Mozart composed the sonata for piano four-hands in F major in Vienna in August 1786,[2][3] between composing his operas Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. He may have written it to play it with a student, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin' daughter Franziska von Jacquin.[2]

Movements

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The sonata is structured in three movements:

  1. Adagio – Allegro di molto
  2. Andante
  3. Allegro

It is Mozart's only sonata for piano four-hand with a slow introduction to the first movement.[2]

Recordings on fortepianos include:

  • George Malcolm, András Schiff. Mozart. Piano Music for 4 Hands. Label: London, 1993. Fortepiano by Anton Walter (Mozart's own).
  • Rolf Junghanns, Bradford Tracey. Mozart, Beethoven, Weber. Vierhändige Klaviermusik von Mozart, Beethoven und Weber. Label: FSM. Fortepiano by Adlam & Burnett (Goudhurst) after Matthäus Heilmann (Mainz, c. 1780).
  • Bart van Oort, Ursula Dütschler. Mozart. Label: Brilliant Classics, 2001. Fortepiano by Chris Maene (Ruiselede, 2000) after Walter (c. 1795).
  • Yoshio Watanabe, Akiko Sakikawa. Mozart. Label: ALM Records, 2004. Fortepiano by Ferdinand Hofmann (Vienna, c. 1790-1795).
  • Marie Kuijken, Veronica Kuijken. Mozart. Sonatas for Four Hands. Label: Challenge Classics, 2009. Fortepiano by Claude Kelecom after Johann Andreas Stein.
  • Julian Perkins, Emma Abbate. Mozart. Piano Duets, Volume 2. Label: Resonus Classics, 2017. Fortepiano by Michael Rosenberger (Vienna, c. 1800).

References

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  1. ^ Peter Jost, Mozart: Works for Piano Four-hands (PDF), retrieved April 18, 2025
  2. ^ a b c "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Sonate F-Dur, KV 497". Kammermusikführer (in German). 2003. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
  3. ^ Timbrell, Charles, ed. (2013). Mozart Sonatas for One Piano, Four Hands. Alfred Music. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-7390-9171-5. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
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