It is not known for certain exactly where and when Mozart composed the sonata - in Vienna or Salzburg in around 1783 is currently thought to be most likely, though Paris and dates as far back as 1778 have also been suggested.
The last movement is often heard on its own, and is one of the most well known of all Mozart's works. It imitates the sound of TurkishJanissary bands, the music of which was much in vogue at that time. Various other works of the time imitate this music, including Mozart's own operaThe Abduction from the Seraglio. For more on Turkish music influences, see Turkish music (style).
A Ogg format version of the "Alla Turca movement can be downloaded here: Rondo Alla Turca.
Adaptations by later composers
The theme of the first movement was used by Max Reger in one of his best known works, the Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart (1914) for orchestra.
In the Baroque era, the use of the term of term "sonata" generally referred to either the sonata da chiesa (church sonata) or sonata da camera ("ordinary" sonata), both of which were sonatas for various instruments (usually one or more violins plus basso continuo).
Although various composers in the 17th century had written keyboard pieces which they entitled "Sonata", it was only in the classical era, when the piano displaced the earlier harpsichord and sonata form rose to prominence as a principle of musical composition, that the term "pianosonata" acquired a definite meaning and a characteristic form.
As the Romantic era progressed after Beethoven and Schubert, pianosonatas continued to be composed, but in smaller numbers as the form took on a somewhat academic tinge and competed with shorter genres more compatible with Romantic compositional style.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'sPianoSonata No. 11 in A major, K. is a sonata in three movements:
It is not known for certain exactly where and when Mozart composed the sonata - in Vienna or Salzburg in around 1783 is currently thought to be most likely, though Paris and dates as far back as 1778 have also been suggested.
The theme of the first movement was used by Max Reger in one of his best known works, the Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart (1914) for orchestra.
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