Piano Sonata No. 12 (Mozart)
| Piano Sonata in F major | |
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| No. 12 | |
| by W. A. Mozart | |
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| Key | F major |
| Catalogue | K. 332 / 300k |
| Style | Classical period |
| Composed | 1783? |
| Published | 1784 |
| Movements | Three (Allegro, Adagio, Allegro assai) |
The Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 332/300k, was written at the same time as the Piano Sonata, K. 330, and Piano Sonata, K. 331 ("Alla turca"), Mozart numbering them as a set from one to three. They were once believed to have been written in the late 1770s in Paris, but it is now thought more likely that they date from 1783, by which time Mozart had moved to Vienna. Some believe that Mozart wrote this and the other sonatas during a summer 1783 visit to Salzburg made for the purpose of introducing his wife, Constanze to his father, Leopold. All three sonatas were published in Vienna in 1784.
The sonata is in three movements and has a conventional structure:
The first movement is in sonata-allegro form.
The second movement is in B♭ major in a sonatina form.
In the 1994 film Immortal Beloved, Giulietta Guicciardii is heard playing this piece during a piano lesson with Ludwig van Beethoven.
The third movement, marked "allegro assai", is in F major, 6/8 time, and sonata form.
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