Piano Sonata No. 7 - Mozart

♫ 0:00 ♫♫ 6:06 ♫♫♫ 12:18 Piano Sonata No. 7 in C major, K 309 was composed during a journey to Mannheim and Paris in 1777-78. The sonata was complete in a few days in early November 1777. The andante movement is a “portrait“ of Rose Cannabich (his pupil), the 13-year-old daughter of the Mannheim Kapellmeister Christian Cannabich. Upon reviewing a copy of the manuscript, Mozart’s father Leopold wrote that it was “a strange composition. It has something in it of the ’rather artificial’ Mannheim