Trills in Mozart...

[larapool]

My professor recently gave me Mozart's K330, first movement, to work on.  The only other Mozart pieces I have worked on were the first two movements of Sonata K545.

At the beginning of this piece there are a couple of small trills.  Coming off the heels of working on several Chopin pieces, I'm wondering if I should play these trills as fast as I can, or play them as regular 16ths?  Playing the trills as straight 16ths sounds much better since this is a Mozart piece and not a Chopin/romantic piece where I'd trill as fast as possible.

It seems like an obvious answer but I thought I'd get a second opinion on this.  Since Mozart is strictly in the classical era, it seems natural to play the trills as evenly as possible.

I've attached an image of the trills in question.  My professor suggested I play them as CDCDC - letting the last C sing slightly before finishing the rest of the phrase.  It sounds good that way, but I wanted to know if it's preferable to treat most Mozart trills like this, very evenly divided and all that...

[hfmadopter]

May be correct or not but I can only recall trilling in Mozart pieces at a  moderate speed, faster than the two notes which generally lead out of the trill so common in Mozart composition ( just like your piece you are working on). Also a hesitation if you will at the end of the trill, not prolonged just a slow down, you don't hang on it. Hesitation is my technical term, it's almost just a feeling more than a countable technique ! I'm sure your professor would tear holes in my explanation.

It's been a long time since I've been with a teacher ( New England Conservatory taught teacher), but this is what I remember learning and how I would still do it today if playing Mozart. Again, right or wrong.

[j_menz]

I'd be inclined to do them as triplet 16ths, that way you finish on the C to lead into the D without either a prolonged 1/8th C or an awkward sounding DD.