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Classical Concerto. Solo instrument and orchestra Three movements Fast - sonata-allegro with double exposition Slow - lyric - in key close to tonic Fast (very fast) - rondo, theme and variations Cadenza. Mozart - Piano Concerto in G maj. K453.
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Classical Concerto • Solo instrument and orchestra • Three movements • Fast - sonata-allegro with double exposition • Slow - lyric - in key close to tonic • Fast (very fast) - rondo, theme and variations • Cadenza
Mozart - Piano Concerto in G maj. K453 • Display piece for his own public performance • Allegro - first-movement concerto form • Andante - lyrical • Allegretto, Presto - theme and variations
Classical Women Virtuosos • Proper and noble for upper-middle-class women to study music • Maria Anna Mozart (1751-1829) • Known as Nannerl - pianist • Maria Theresa von Paradis (1759-1808) • Pianist, organist and composer • Barbara von Ployer (student of Mozart’s)
Classical Sonata • Instrumental work for 1 or 2 instruments • 3 or 4 contrasting movements • Important genre for amateurs as well as concert artists • Beethoven’s piano sonatas - most significant in the solo literature for that instrument.
Beethoven - Pathetique Sonata • Grave, Allegro di molto e con brio • Sonata-allegro form • Adagio cantabile • Rondo form - A-B-A-C-A • Slow and songful • Allegro - rondo form • Rondo form - A-B-A-C-A-B-A