Jonas Vitaud, the pianist on this album, began studying piano at age six and organ at age eleven, and has won several international competitions as both a soloist and chamber musician.
Composer Biography
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, famous as a piano prodigy, also played the organ, violin, and viola, following in the footsteps of his violinist father, Leopold Mozart.
Performer Biography
Mi-Sa Yang, the violinist on this album, won first prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists in 2000.
Composer Biography
At age seven, Mozart's violin mastery amazed his family, with a friend, Johann Andreas Schachtner, recounting how Wolfgang insisted on playing second violin during a chamber music session.
Composition History
The Sonatas K 379 and 380 are part of a second group of six sonatas published in Vienna, aimed at the large market of amateur musicians, after Mozart definitively left his employer Hieronymus von Colloredo in 1781.
Compositional Technique
Mozart often used the key of G minor for particularly intense and dramatic compositions, a characteristic evident in the Allegro of the Sonata in G major, K 379.
Composition History
Mozart's 'Palatine Sonatas' (K 301-306) were begun in Mannheim and finished in Paris during his 1777-1778 journey with his mother, and were dedicated to Maria Elisabeth, Electress of the Palatinate.
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