Mozart’s “Sonatas for Piano and Violin” in the historical context of the Epoch

Abstract

Mozart’s work can truly be appreciated when we focus our attention first on the stage of the musical art at the time of Mozart’s apparition, and then on the manner and means used by him for expanding the content of musical language. In the sphere of his creative thinking, Mozart included all music genres and forms constituted by the collective effort over the centuries, by the effort of countless composers of the 17^th and 18^th Centuries. A special domain of Mozart’s creation is chamber music; only by knowing the aspects of the condition of the chamber genre, starting with the first part of the 18^th Century, will we be able to understand the plenitude of Mozart’s work.