Piano Sonata No. 1 (Mozart)

Piano Sonata in C major
Piano Sonata in C major
No. 1
by W. A. Mozart
	The beginning
Key	C major
Catalogue	K. 279 / 189d
Style	Classical period
Composed	1774
Movements	Three (Allegro, Andante, Allegro)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, K. 279 / 189d (1774), is a piano sonata in three movements. Except for the first part of the opening movement, it was written during the visit Mozart paid to Munich for the production of La finta giardiniera from December 1774 to March 1775.^[1] Although Mozart is known to have written at least five other solo piano sonatas in his youth,^[2] K.279 is the first of his 18 extant solo piano sonatas. A typical performance of the sonata takes about 14 minutes.

^ Grout, Donald J. (2010). "23 – Classical Music in the late 18th Century". A History of Western Music (8th ed.). New York: W. W. Norton. p. 554.
^ Neal Zaslaw, ed., The Compleat Mozart (1990), New York: W. W. Norton, pp.306-307

[1] Grout, Donald J. (2010). "23 – Classical Music in the late 18th Century". A History of Western Music (8th ed.). New York: W. W. Norton. p. 554.

[2] Neal Zaslaw, ed., The Compleat Mozart (1990), New York: W. W. Norton, pp.306-307

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