Rondo alla Turca (arr. from Sonata K. 331)

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • This movement originally comes from Mozart’s Keyboard Sonata no. 11, K. 331, which premiered in either Munich or Vienna sometime between 1781-3. The sonata was published in Vienna in 1874 as Op.6 no.2.1
  • The interest in “Turkish” music in Austria in Mozart’s time stems partly from the Turks’ (unsuccessful) siege of Vienna in 1683.2
  • This movement was inspired by the sound of Turkish Janissary bands, one of the world’s oldest types of military bands.3

Sources

  1. Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233. 
  2. Julian Rushton, “Entführung aus dem Serail, Die,” Grove Music Online (2002), accessed November 26, 2019, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000006411. 
  3. “Mozart – Turkish March (Rondo alla Turca from Sonata No. 11), ClassicFM (November 4, 2014), accessed November 27, 2019, https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/music/turkish-march-rondo-alla-turca/. 

Cut IDs

17965, 45536