Mozart - Violin Sonata No. 20, C Major K. 303 [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.

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Sonata for violin & piano No. 20 in C major, K. 303 (K. 293c) 1778

1. Adagio - Molto Allegro - Adagio - Molto Allegro (0:00)
2. Tempo di Menuetto (5:21)

Henryk Szeryng, violin and Ingrid Haebler, piano

Description by Brian Robins [-]
During the course of the long trip undertaken to Mannheim and Paris in 1777-1778, Mozart composed seven sonatas for piano and violin (K. 296 and K. 301-306). The C major is the third of the group and the last to have been composed entirely in Mannheim. Like the Sonatas in C, K. 296, in G, K. 301 and E flat, K. 302 it was written during the spring of 1778, a period during which Mozart persistently delayed his departure for Paris, having fallen in love with the young singer Aloysia Weber. These Mannheim sonatas were the first Mozart had composed for keyboard and piano since his childhood, a renewed interest that appears to have gained its impetus from a group of sonatas by the Dresden Kapellmeister Joseph Schuster (1748-1812), which Mozart heard and played in Munich, the first stop made on the tour. In a letter written to his father from Munich he states his intention of composing pieces in the same style, but it was not until several months after his arrival in Mannheim that Mozart started work on the sonatas. What probably particularly interested Mozart about the Schuster sonatas was the greater independence given to the violin part than was customary at the time (the characteristic dominance of the piano part can be clearly heard in the very early sonatas composed by Mozart a dozen years earlier).