Mozart Wouldn’t Be Mozart Without These Three Objects
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Hear the instruments and scores, on view in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, that proved foundational for Mozart’s life in music.
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For example, the finale of his Piano Sonata in A (K. 331), better for known as the “Rondo alla Turca,” whose copyist manuscript is on view at the Morgan, opens with one of the most famous melodies in music. Reminiscent of Turkish military bands that were popular in Vienna at the time, it was practically made to be a hit, with bouncing rhythms, puckish ornamentation and a winning exotic theme that returns again and again.
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