The Nannerl Notenbuch (or Nannerl's Music Book) is a book in which Leopold Mozart, from 1759 to around 1763, wrote pieces for his daughter, Maria Anna Mozart (known as 'Nannerl'), to learn and play. His son Wolfgang also used the book, and wrote his earliest compositions there. The book contains simple short keyboard (typically harpsichord) pieces, suitable for beginners; there are many anonymous minuets, some works by Leopold, and a few other composers including C. P. E. Bach. There are also some technical exercises, a table of intervals, and some modulating figured basses.^[1] Johann Georg Leopold Mozart Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a composer, music teacher and violinist. ... 1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1763 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Maria Anna Mozart (30 July 1751-29 October 1829), nicknamed Nannerl Mozart. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart; January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) is among the most significant and enduringly popular composers of European classical music. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... Harpsichord in Flemish style; for more info, click the image. ... A minuet, sometimes spelt menuet, is a dance for two persons, usually in 3/4 time. ... In music theory, an interval is the relationship between two notes or pitches, the lower and higher members of the interval. ... In music, modulation is most commonly the act or process of changing from one key (tonic, or tonal center) to another. ... Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of integer musical notation used to indicate intervals, chords, and nonchord tones, in relation to a bass note. ...

The Notenbuch provides evidence of the collaboration between the young Wolfgang and his father. For example, number 48 is an arrangement of the third movement of Leopold's D major serenade, but the trio also appears as Menuet II in Wolfgang's Sonata K6.^[2]

The Notenbuch is also useful in providing evidence of Leopold's approach to teaching music. The tables of intervals show that he taught music theory to his children from the start. It seems that he also taught composition from the outset, by means of^[3] Music theory is a field of study that describes the elements of music and includes the development and application of methods for analyzing and composing music, and the interrelationship between the notation of music and performance practice. ... Musical composition is: an original piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance...

• a given bass line
• a meldoy to be varied
• a melody to be continued
• a structural model

The earliest compositions by Wolfgang are written in Leopold's hand; the father's gentle suggestions for amendments came later.^[4]

Wolfgang Mozart's compositions in the book

The Notenbuch contains the following pieces by Wolfgang:

1. Andante in C, K. 1a
2. Allegro in C, K. 1b
3. Allegro in F, K. 1c
4. Minuet in F, K. 1d
5. Minuet in G, K. 1e
6. Minuet in C, K. 1f
7. Minuet in F, K. 2
8. Allegro in B-flat, K. 3
9. Minuet in F, K. 4
10. Minuet in F, K. 5
11. Allegro in C, K. 5a
12. Andante in B-flat, K. 5b

The Andante in C is a keyboard work, K. 1a, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1761 and found in Nannerls Music Book. ... The Allegro in C, K. 1b, is a keyboard work written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1761. ... The Allegro in F, K. 1c, is a keyboard work, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1761. ... The Minuet in F is a keyboard work, K. 1d, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on December 16, 1761 in Salzburg. ... The Minuet in G is a keyboard work, K. 1e, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in December1761 or January 1762 in Salzburg. ... The Minuet in C is a keyboard work, K. 1f, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in December1761 or January 1762 in Salzburg. ...

References

• Cliff Eisen, Simon P. Keefe, The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521856590
• Cliff Eisen, Mozart Studies 2, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0198163436

Notes

1. ^ Eisen and Keefe, op. cit. page 322
2. ^ Cliff Eisen, 'Leopold Mozart', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed [9 May 2006])
3. ^ Eisen and Keefe, op. cit. page 322
4. ^ Eisen and Keefe, op. cit. page 323