Friends of Mozart presents a recital of music for piano duet. Just as Mozart established most classical keyboard genres, he also defined the repertoire for piano chamber music in the form of four-hand keyboard works, including sonatas.
The program includes Mozart’s monumental Sonata in C major, K. 521, composed in 1787 as well as the Fantasia in F minor, K.608, for mechanical organ, in transcription for one keyboard, four-hands. As a complement to these two late Mozart pieces and as reflection of the rise of the four-hands repertoire, the concert encompasses the large-scale Rondo in A major, D. 951, by Franz Schubert, written in the last year of the composer’s life as well as the Fugue in E minor, D. 952, a work that documents Schubert’s late study of the fugal form.
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