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Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488

178627 min

This guide follows Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488 (1786) in three parts: Allegro (sonata form), Adagio and Allegro assai (sonata-rondo).

Recording: Maurizio Pollini (piano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm

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Follow all 39 sections as they play

  1. I · Sonata form
  2. II
  3. III · Sonata-rondo
ISonata form0:02–11:08

The orchestra gives a restrained, concise , with a and the . The piano then starts again with the , with more and freer changes of . The tense , and a third ( 3) appears. Then come the and the . Mozart wrote out the himself, and the follows.

  1. : 1a
  2. : 1b /
II11:18–18:26
III Sonata-rondo18:33–26:32

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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Wolfgang Amadeus MozartConcertosClassical periodA majorSonata formSonata-rondo

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