Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2: Nos. 11-18 and No. 19: Piano (Solo)

Edition Peters delivers a performing score based on Mozart's autographs and earliest printed sources, cutting through the accumulated editorial apparatus that clouds many editions. The inclusion of both the Rondo alla Turca and the Sonata Facile alongside eight other substantial works gives you unfiltered access to Mozart's keyboard voice during his most inventive years. Students and teachers benefit from text that prioritizes fidelity to the composer's intent rather than nineteenth-century assumptions about what his music needed.

These sonatas balance formal elegance with intimate expression. The writing combines ornate passagework and brilliant hand-crossing with moments of genuine lyrical warmth and harmonic surprise. Movement between public brilliance and private reflection defines the emotional landscape; the celebrated Rondo alla Turca brings theatrical exuberance while earlier movements offer sophisticated introspection.

Pianists at the intermediate-advanced level who want to engage with Mozart's sonatas through a score grounded in historical sources. Teachers preparing students for competitions, recitals, or comprehensive keyboard studies will find the scholarly apparatus invaluable. This edition also serves musicians interested in understanding performance practice and compositional technique through direct study of Mozart's original intentions.

• Attend to the texture and spacing on the page as encoded by the earliest sources. Mozart's original notation often reveals voice-leading intentions that modern typesetting obscures.
• Treat ornaments as structural elements, not decoration. The trills, turns, and other embellishments in these sonatas serve harmonic and rhythmic functions specific to each movement.
• Balance the treble line's lyrical demands with the accompaniment figures. These works require the pianist to sing through the right hand while maintaining textural clarity in supporting voices.
• Find the dramatic arc in slow movements. The Adagio and Andante sections are not interludes but substantive explorations of harmony and emotional depth.

Build a Mozart sonata recital using selections from this volume alongside Vol. 1 and Vol. 3 to showcase the composer's stylistic range across three decades. Individual movements work well as encores or as opening pieces for recitals where you want to establish classical restraint before moving into Romantic repertoire. Assign specific sonatas as pedagogical anchors in keyboard literature courses, using the urtext apparatus to teach students how composers' original scores differ from nineteenth-century editions.

• Reading and interpreting urtext scores with minimal editorial intervention
• Executing rapid scalar passagework and hand-crossing passages with clarity and control
• Understanding cadential harmony and classical phrase architecture through Mozart's syntax
• Performing ornaments idiomatically within their harmonic and rhythmic contexts
• Balancing melody and accompaniment across three-staff texture