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Klappentext An examination of Mozart's piano sonatas! showing them to be a microcosm of the composer's changing style. Zusammenfassung Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part of his instrumental output and span much of his mature composing career! thereby representing a microcosm of the composer's changing style. Issues such as the conflicts of the works! their genesis and rhetoric are examined! resulting in a comprehensive cross-section of Mozart's comprehensive strategies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I. Contexts: 1. The solo sonata in context; 2. Stylistic models for Mozart's sonatas; Part II. Sources: 3 Six sonatas, K.279-84; 4. Three sonatas, K.309-11; 5. Four sonatas, K.330-2, K.333; 6. Fantasia and Sonata in C minor, K.475 and 457; 7. Later Viennese sonatas: K.533 and 494, K.545, K.570, K.576; 8. Fragments: Part III. Style: 9. Eighteenth-century views of sonata form; 10. Pre-compositional choices - the rhetorical inventio; 11. Dispositio: rhetoric and design; 12. The rhetorical elocutio; Notes, Select bibliography; Index.
