typical mozart?

[ashildmb]

I would like all of yours oppinions on what is typical in Mozart´s pieces? what characterizes him and his music?

[sauergrandson]

Joy - transparence - spirit.  Scales everywhere!!!! With Mozart you cannot do a mistake. Never.

Piano pieces?    Sonatas K. 545, 310, sonata in A with Turkish Rondo.

                            Fantasy in D minor, Rondò in D minor. Variationes "A vous je dirai, mamman.

Fantasia C minor.

[kelly_kelly]

Do you mean the Rondo in D Major (K. 485) or the Rondo in A Minor (K. 511)?

[juliax]

Consistency and form.  His music is very organized, typical of the classical period, and contains many scales, cadences, and arpeggios. 
Your question is very vague.  Can you be more specific as to what you want to know?

[sauergrandson]

I'm sorry.    RONDÒ D MAJOR. It's very characteristic, isn't it?

[ashildmb]

I mean like Beethoven used alot of suprising Sf, ff + +, did mozart do anything like that? I feel it is very typical Mozart to use alot of scales and the music is very "clean". I am sitting here analyzing his sonata No.16. K 545, and he follows the sonataform very much..is this typical Mozart? Does he have something in his pieces so you just KNOW that this MUST be mozart?

[crazy for ivan moravec]

that cadential trill.

[sauergrandson]

The use of the dominant seventh chord:

a) Usually inverted, in the piano concerts.

b) A complete measure -or two- of dominant seventh, before closings (cadence).

[lisztisforkids]

Much of his music reminds me of a little school girl laughing.. hehehehehe.

[rc]

I mean like Beethoven used alot of suprising Sf, ff + +, did mozart do anything like that? I feel it is very typical Mozart to use alot of scales and the music is very "clean". I am sitting here analyzing his sonata No.16. K 545, and he follows the sonataform very much..is this typical Mozart? Does he have something in his pieces so you just KNOW that this MUST be mozart?

I haven't learned too much Mozart, but if you check out the last movment of 545 there's a little musical joke towards the end (bar 52ish) where he build the theme, up and up, then at the end instead of giving the expected resolution... He gives you a fermata with a rest. I like to play it as if I've suddenly forgot what I was doing.

[Tash]

this is slightly off the topic, but i'm not a huge fan of mozart sonatas i find them somewhat boring. however in a class the other week we were looking at them, and then we listened to one played on a fortepiano rather than a now normal steinway or whatever, and it gave it a completely different feel! it was humerous and bright and i was like man this is what mozart should sound like, so i'm all for the fortepiano now...