Allegro & Andante for Piano KV533

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 15 in F major, KV 533/494 (finished January 3 1788) is a sonata in three movements:

1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Rondeau Allegro

A typical performance takes about 23 minutes.

The F Major sonata was written in two parts -- hence, the two Köchel numbers. The Rondeau finale was originally written as a separate piece as K. 494. A few months later, the first two movements were written. At his publisher Hoffmeister's request, he joined K. 494 to them to form a three-movement sonata, referred to as K. 533, adding a twenty-seven measure cadenza to the Rondo making use of lower registers of the piano not heard in the rest of the movement.

References

• How the work came together

External links

• Sonate in F KV 533/KV 494: Score and critical report (German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
• Piano Sonata No. 15: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.
• Performance of Piano Sonata No. 15 by Jonathan Biss from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format