Violin Sonata No. 27 (Mozart)

Violin Sonata No. 27
by W. A. Mozart
Detail of Wolfgang from the 1780–81 Portrait of the Mozart Family
Key	G major
Catalogue	K. 379/373a
Composed	Vienna, 1781 (1781)
Published	Vienna, November 1781
Publisher	Artaria
Duration	c. 18 minutes
Movements	2
Scoring	Violin and piano

Violin Sonata No. 27 in G major (K. 379/373a) was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna in 1781 and first published in the same year.

Structure

This violin sonata consists of two movements.

1. Adagio (G major) - Allegro (G minor)
2. Theme: Andantino cantabile, with variations:
   • Variation 1 (piano without violin)
   • Variation 2
   • Variation 3
   • Variation 4 in G minor
   • Variation 5: Adagio
   • Allegretto (Thema da capo – Coda)

Discography

• Oleg Kagan, violin and Sviatoslav Richter, piano: Violin Sonata in G, K. 379 (1982)
• Arthur Grumiaux, violin and Walter Klien, piano: Violin Sonata in G K379 (1982)
• Augustin Dumay, violin and Maria João Pires, piano: Violin sonatas K. 301, No. 18, K. 304, No. 21, K. 378, No. 26 and K. 379, No. 27 (1991)
• Midori Seiler, violin and Jos Van Immerseel, fortepiano: Violin Sonata in G, K. 379 (2000)
• Vineta Sareika, violin and Amandine Savary, piano: Violin sonatas K. 376, No. 24, K. 379, No. 27 and K. 526, No. 35 (2019)

Further reading

• Zaslaw, Neal; Cowdery, William (1990). The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New York: W. W. Norton.

External links

•  Violin Sonata No. 27 (Mozart): Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
• Violin Sonata No. 27 in G, K. 379: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Brian Robins. Sonata for violin & piano No. 27 in G major, K. 379 (K. 373a) at AllMusic