- Mozart composed this sonata for violin and keyboard in early 1778 during a visit to Mannheim with his mother.
- Mozart was in Mannheim looking for work (ultimately unsuccessfully), networking with the court Kapellmeister and musicians of the famous Mannheim Orchestra.
- Mozart was badly in need of a good position: in the summer of 1777, a frustrated Mozart had his employer Archbishop Colloredo, in Salzburg, for permission to resign. The Archbishop responded by firing both Mozart and his father.
- The sonata published in Paris, along with five others (in total, K.301-306), in 1778. The set was published as Mozart’s “Op. 1.”1
Sources
- Cliff Eisen and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 28, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233.
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