Mozart - Violin Sonata No. 21, E Minor, K. 304 [Szeryng/Haebler]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was one of the most influential, popular and prolific composers of the classical period. A child prodigy, from an early age he began composing over 600 works, including some of the most famous pieces of symphonic, chamber, operatic, and choral music.

Sonata for violin & piano No. 21 in E minor, K. 304 (K. 300c) 1778
1. Allegro (0:00)
2. Tempo di Menuetto (6:50)

Henryk Szeryng, violin and Ingrid Haebler, piano

Description by Brian Robins [-]
The fourth of seven sonatas for piano and violin composed by Mozart in Mannheim and Paris during 1778, the E minor Sonata is the only one in a minor key. Recent paper dating has shown that while the opening Allegro was composed in Mannheim, the following Tempo di Menuetto was composed in Paris, where Mozart and his mother finally arrived on March 23. Like all but the last of its companions, K. 304 has only two movements, but it departs from the distinctly domestic feel of the first three works in finding a new profundity of dramatic expression fully in keeping with its minor mode. In this it bears a strong resemblance to another minor-key work composed in Paris at much the same time -- the Piano Sonata in A minor, K. 310.