Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 17, K.570 (1789) {Ingrid Haebler}

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era. According to Bartje Bartmans one of the greatest and brightest stars on the firmament. Please support my channel: Piano Sonata No. 17 in B flat major, K. 570. Vienna, Feb., 1789 1. Allegro (0:00) 2. Adagio (6:32) Allegretto (14:52) Ingrid Haebler, piano Description by Brian Robins [-] Mozart&penultimate piano sonata dates from 1789, a barren year for composition by his prolific standards, the only other major works produced being the final Piano Sonata in D major, K. 576, the first of the "Prussian" string quartets (in D major, K. 575), and the Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581. It was also the year of the composer&speculative journey to Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden, a tour that failed to alleviate Mozart&by then desperate financial straits. Prior to setting off for Germany in the spring, he composed the B flat Sonata, entering it into his thematic catalog during February. His entry for it specifies the work as being a sonata auf Klavier allein (for piano alone), but curiously the sonata was long known in a version for violin and piano. This originated with the first published version, which appeared in Vienna in 1796 with a violin part so lacking in invention that it can be considered spurious with near certainty. It seems likely that, like its immediate predecessor, the so-called...