Piano Sonata No. 3 (Mozart)

Piano Sonata in B♭ major
No. 3
by W. A. Mozart
The young composer, a 1777 copy of a lost painting
Key	B♭ major
Catalogue	K. 281 / 189f
Style	Classical period
Composed	1774 (1774)
Movements	Allegro, Andante amoroso, Rondo (allegro)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 3 in B♭ major, K. 281 / 189f, (1774) is a piano sonata in three movements:

Allegro
Andante amoroso (E♭ major)
Rondo (allegro)

A typical performance takes about 14 minutes.

This piano sonata is one of the most virtuosic pieces Mozart ever composed, written during the visit Mozart paid to Munich for the production of La finta giardiniera from late 1774 to the beginning of the following March.

External links

Sonate in B KV 281: Score in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
Piano sonata in B♭ major, K. 281(189f) (interactive score) on Verovio Humdrum Viewer (Alte Mozart-Ausgabe version)

v t e Piano sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano solo	No. 1 in C major, K. 279/189d No. 2 in F major, K. 280/189e No. 3 in B♭ major, K. 281/189f No. 4 in E♭ major, K. 282/189g No. 5 in G major, K. 283/189h No. 6 in D major, K. 284/205b No. 7 in C major, K. 309/284b No. 8 in A minor, K. 310/300d No. 9 in D major, K. 311/284c No. 10 in C major, K. 330/300h No. 11 in A major, K. 331/300i No. 12 in F major, K. 332/300k No. 13 in B♭ major, K. 333/315c No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 No. 15 in F major, K. 533/494 No. 16 in C major, K. 545 No. 17 in B♭ major, K. 570 No. 18 in D major, K. 576
Early	Sonata movements included in the London Sketchbook, K.15 a–ss
Two pianos	Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448
Piano four-hands	Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, K. 521
Spurious	"No. 19" in F major, K. 547a "No. 20" in B♭ major, K. 498a
Doubtful	Sonata in C major for keyboard four-hands, K. 19d
Related works	Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
List of solo piano compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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