Friday, March 9, 2018

                        Welcome to the Course on Mozart's Piano Music

Online Piano                         
                                                                                    
                                      Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart


                               BBC documentary - The Great Composers: Mozart  (1 hour)

                               BBC documentary - The Genius of Mozart  (3 hours)


      Course Description

             While best known as a composer of great operas and symphonies, Wolfgang Amadeus 
      Mozart also made vital contributions to the piano's rise from obscurity to great popularity in 
      the Classical era of the late 18th century.   His sparkling piano sonatas and chamber works 
      delighted the aristocracy and he enthralled the general public with his passionate piano 
      concertos that combined the piano with his sublime orchestral composing.  Mozart's public 
      concerts provided the growing middle class some of their earliest access to profound instru-
      mental music and made him one of the first successful freelance composers at a time when 
      most composers were essentially servants of the aristocracy.  His piano works contain 
      many of his most memorable melodies.


    In this course participants will learn about...

          The many different types and styles of Mozart's piano works.

          Mozart's personal life and his composing career. 

          The forms of instrumental music in the Classical era and some basic music theory.

          The social and intellectual culture of 1780s Vienna.

          Mozart's influence on other composers of piano music.  

          Many renowned classical pianists by watching them perform Mozart's music. 


Course Syllabus


      Week 1   -   The Classical Era & Mozart's Piano Sonatas

                              Course Introduction, Classicism & Romanticism, Instrumental Genres 
                               & Forms in the Classical Era, Mozart's Piano Sonatas


      Week 2   -   Proto-romanticism & Music for Two Pianos 

                              Mozart's Youth, The Sturm und Drang Movement, Mozart's Minor Key 
                               Sonatas & Fantasias, Music for Two Pianos & Four-Hand Piano


       Week 3   -  Mozart's Chamber Music with Piano

                               Mozart's Early Adulthood, and his Violin Sonatas, Piano Trios, Piano 
                                Quartets, & the Quintet for Piano and Winds


       Week 4   -  Mozart's Piano Concertos

                                Mozart's Vienna Years and his Piano Concertos

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