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    Student: Elena Bonanno Analysis Adagio in B Minor, Mozart

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    The Adagio in B minor for piano is a standalone composition Mozart completed in 1788 during an economically difficult time. It is considered one of Mozart's most perfect and deeply felt works. The piece is in sonata form and is in the key of B minor, which Mozart rarely used. It features two main themes, the first rhythmically varied and the second consisting of an ascending arpeggio. The development section features the first theme in a new key with the second theme inverted, and the piece ultimately closes in B major.

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    The Adagio in B minor for piano is a standalone composition Mozart completed in 1788 during an economically difficult time. It is considered one of Mozart's most perfect and deeply felt works. The piece is in sonata form and is in the key of B minor, which Mozart rarely used. It features two main themes, the first rhythmically varied and the second consisting of an ascending arpeggio. The development section features the first theme in a new key with the second theme inverted, and the piece ultimately closes in B major.

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    The Adagio in B minor for piano is a standalone composition Mozart completed in 1788 during an economically difficult time. It is considered one of Mozart's most perfect and deeply felt works. The piece is in sonata form and is in the key of B minor, which Mozart rarely used. It features two main themes, the first rhythmically varied and the second consisting of an ascending arpeggio. The development section features the first theme in a new key with the second theme inverted, and the piece ultimately closes in B major.

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    Student: Elena Bonanno Analysis Adagio in B Minor, Mozart

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    The Adagio in B minor for piano is a standalone composition Mozart completed in 1788 during an economically difficult time. It is considered one of Mozart's most perfect and deeply felt works. The piece is in sonata form and is in the key of B minor, which Mozart rarely used. It features two main themes, the first rhythmically varied and the second consisting of an ascending arpeggio. The development section features the first theme in a new key with the second theme inverted, and the piece ultimately closes in B major.

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    STUDENT: ELENA BONANNO

    ANALYSIS ADAGIO IN B MINOR, MOZART

    The Adagio in B minor for piano is a standalone composition for solo piano. Mozart
    completed this Adagio on March 19 in 1788. It was an economically difficult period for
    him. In fact the war against Turks limited the interest of the Viennese citizens for the music:
    works are not commissioned and concerts were not requested.
    English musicologist Alfred Einstein considered this piece “one of the most perfect, most
    deeply felt, and most dispairing of all his works”.
    This Adagio is in the key of B minor. The relative Major of B minor is D Major . Mozart
    rarely used this minor key. It is used in only one other Adagio movement from the Quartet
    for flute,violin, viola and cello, K. 285, composed eleven years earlier. This key must have
    held a special significance for Mozart because in his personal catalogue he wrote, “H moll”
    (B minor), the only time he ever listed the key of a work. With 57 measures, the lenght of
    the piece is mainly based on the performer interpretation, including the decision whether to
    do both repeats. For this sense, the piece may last about 6 minutes or 12 minutes.
    The piece starts on a down-beat and the time signature is 4/4. In sonata form, the piece
    opens with a B minor triad. The first theme (bars n. 1 - 6) is very rhytmically various and
    diversified, by the frequent use of different types of note values (crotchets, quavers,
    semiquavers, demisemiquavers...) and several dynamic changes (soft, loud, medium loud,
    forced..). After a stop on the dominant (F) on bar n. 6, the first theme begins again (bar n.7),
    but in the left hand, initiating the transition to D Major, B minor relative. The second theme
    (bars n. 11- 14) is played with the left hand too. It consists on an ascending arpeggio, played
    loud in the lower register of the piano, immediately balanced by a rising chromatic ascent in
    the treble, played soft, after crossing the hands. In the development section (bars n. 23) the
    first theme starts on G major, while the second theme is inverted. After a brief repeat of the
    sections and a short coda, the pieces closes in B Major.

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