How to play the first 2 notes in the bar

[lflp]

Hi there

I have attached a picture from Mozart's Sonata in A major (K.331).
My question is very simple: How do I play (the length of notes) the
first two notes in the right hand? What disturbs me is the little "thing"
on the first note - I don't know what it is called.
Thanks in advance.

Greetings from Denmark
Flemming

[faulty_damper]

That's a 16th note.

[eldergeek]

Hmm - must not post things after glasses of wine! (my first response being total nonsense)

It is a 16th note and hence lasts as long as the first 2 notes played by the left hand.

[j_menz]

Visually, it is a little misleading, as the second notes in each hand are played simultaneously.

I.e. the B in the right hand is sounded at the same time as the E in the left hand - although it looks (vertically) as if it sounds at the same time as the D sharp.

F- I'm afraid.

The thing on the first note is a short bar, making it a semiquaver (sixteenth note as faulty says). The notes in the bass are demisemiquavers (32nd notes) so it is held for two of them. The next note (B) in the RH is played with the third note (D#) in the LH. The effect is a syncopation.

Also, mind the phrasing in the RH - the second note in each group of two tied notes isn't held for it's full value, separating the groups of two.

[eldergeek]

I think I corrected my nonsense before you gave me the "F" (blaming it on too much wine this evening)

[j_menz]

I think I corrected my nonsense before you gave me the "F" (blaming it on too much wine this evening)

No worries. Trust it's a decent drop. 

[eldergeek]

A reasonably good Rioja

[lflp]

thank you everybody for your answers, it was a big help.

Flemming