Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3

The Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216, was composed by Mozart in Salzburg in 1775. Mozart was only 19 at the time. The piece is in three movements: Allegro Adagio Rondeau. Allegro I. Allegro The Allegro is in sonata form, opening with a brilliant G major theme, played by the orchestra. The main theme is a bright and happy discussion between the solo violin and the accompanist, followed by a modulation to the dominant D major, then its parallel key D minor. It experiments in other keys but does not settle and eventually heads back to the tonic, G major, in the recapitulation with the help of the cadenza. II. Adagio The second movement is also in ternary form form, and in the dominant key of D major. The orchestra begins by playing the well known and beautiful main theme, which the violin imitates one octave higher. The winds then play a dance-like motif in A major, which the violin concludes by its own. After a conclusion in A, the vikolin plays the main theme again, remaining in the same key. When it should have sounded A natural, it sounds A sharp, and the melody switches to B minor, in a fairly tragic passage. It soon modulates back to A major, and to the home key of D major through the main theme. After the cadenza, and in a quite unusual thing for Mozart to do, the violin plays the main theme again, thus concluding the movement in D. III. Rondeau The third movement is a Rondeau Allegro, and opens with an orchestra theme which gave the concerto its nickname...