Mozart: Complete Solo Piano Works [BOX SET]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar, full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over six hundred works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. Visiting Vienna in 1781 he was dismissed from his Salzburg position and chose to stay in the capital, where over the rest of his life he achieved fame but little financial security. The final years in Vienna yielded many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and the Requiem. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.

Mozart always learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate—the whole informed by a vision of humanity "redeemed through art, forgiven, and reconciled with nature and the absolute". His influence on all subsequent Western art music is profound. Beethoven wrote his own early compositions in the shadow of Mozart, of whom Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years"

Tracklisting - CD1

1. Piano sonata No.1 in C major KV 279 - 1. Allegro 4:57
2. Piano sonata No.1 in C major KV 279 - 2. Andante 5:12
3. Piano sonata No.1 in C major KV 279 - 3. Allegro 3:22
4. Piano sonata No.2 in F major KV 280 - 1. Allegro assai 4:31
5. Piano sonata No.2 in F major KV 280 - 2. Adagio 6:02
6. Piano sonata No.2 in F major KV 280 - 3. Presto 2:55
7. Piano sonata No.3 in B flat major KV 281 - 1. Allegro 6:47
8. Piano sonata No.3 in B flat major KV 281 - 2. Andante amoroso 5:32
9. Piano sonata No.3 in B flat major KV 281 - 3. Rondo. Allegro 4:36
10. Piano sonata No.4 in G major KV 282 - 1. Adagio 7:00
11. Piano sonata No.4 in G major KV 282 - 2. Menuetto 4:05
12. Piano sonata No.4 in G major KV 282 - 3. Allegro 3:03
13. Piano sonata No.5 in G major KV 283 - 1. Allegro 5:26
14. Piano sonata No.5 in G major KV 283 - 2. Andante 5:41
15. Piano sonata No.5 in G major KV 283 - 3. Presto

Tracklisting - CD2

1. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.4 in E flat major, K.282 - 1. Adageo 3:56
2. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.4 in E flat major, K.282 - 2. Minuet I & II 3:57
3. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.4 in E flat major, K.282 - 3. Allegro 3:03
4. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.5 in G major, K.283 - 1. Allegro 3:57
5. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.5 in G major, K.283 - 2. Andante 5:33
6. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.5 in G major, K.283 - 3. Presto 3:42
7. Walter Gieseking / Sonata Novement (Allegro) in G mimor K.312 3:01
8. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.6 in d major, K.284 "Durnitz" - 1. Allegro 3:44
9. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.6 in d major, K.284 "Durnitz" - 2. Rondo and Polonaise (Andante) 3:20
10. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.6 in d major, K.284 "Durnitz" - 3. Tempo con Variazione 15:07
11. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.7 in C major, K.309 - 1. Allegro con spirito 4:03
12. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.7 in C major, K.309 - 2. Andante un poco adagio 6:08
13. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.7 in C major, K.309 - 3. Rondo (Allegretto grazioso)

Tracklisting - CD3

1. Sonate für Klavier K. 311: 1. Allegro con spirito 4:34
2. Sonate für Klavier K. 311: 2. Andante con espressione 5:38
3. Sonate für Klavier K. 311: 3. Rondo (Allegro) 6:00
4. Sonate für Klavier K. 310: 1. Allegro maestoso 4:16
5. Sonate für Klavier K. 310: 2. Andante cantabile con espressione 6:50
6. Sonate für Klavier K. 310: 3. Presto 2:57
7. 12 Variationen über Je suis Lindor aus Beaumarchais' Barbier Es-Dur KV 354 (299a) 10:46
8. Capriccio C-Dur KV 395 (300g) 3:23
9. 12 Variationen über Ah, vous dirais-je, Maman C-Dur KV 265 (300e) 6:14
10. Sonate für Klavier K. 330: 1. Allegro moderato 6:20
11. Sonate für Klavier K. 330: 2. Andante cantabile 7:09
12. Sonate für Klavier K. 330: 3. Allegretto

Tracklisting - CD4

1. Sonate für Klavier K. 331: 1. Tema (Andante grazioso) 7:31
2. Sonate für Klavier K. 331: 2. Minuetto 5:43
3. Sonate für Klavier K. 331: 3. Rondo alla turca (Türkischer Marsch) 3:45
4. Sonate für Klavier K. 332: 1. Allegro 4:35
5. Sonate für Klavier K. 332: 2. Adagio 4:52
6. Sonate für Klavier K. 332: 3. Allegro assai 4:29
7. 12 Variationen über La belle Francoise Es-Dur KV 353 6:51
8. 9 Variationen über Lison dormait aus N. Decèdes Julie C-Dur KV 264 (315d) 14:41
9. Sonate für Klavier K. 333: 1. Allegro 4:55
10. Sonate für Klavier K. 333: 2. Andante cantabile 6:14
11. Sonate für Klavier K. 333: 3. Allegretto grazioso

Tracklisting - CD5

1. Walter Gieseking / 8 Menuette Mit Trios, K.315a 14:08
2. Walter Gieseking / 8 Variations In F Major On The March "Les Mariages Samnites" By Gr¨¦try, K.352 6:06
3. Walter Gieseking / Sonata Movement (Allegro) In B Flat Major, K.400 4:57
4. Walter Gieseking / Fantasy And Fugue In C Major, K.394 8:11
5. Walter Gieseking / Fugue In G Minor, K.401 4:06
6. Walter Gieseking / Fantasy In C Minor, K.396 8:03
7. Walter Gieseking / Fantasy In D Minor, K.397 5:20
8. Walter Gieseking / Suite In C Major, K.399: Ouverture - Allegro - Allemande - Courante - Sarabande 8:55
9. Walter Gieseking / 6 Variations In F Major On "Salve Tu, Domine", K.398

Tracklisting - CD6

1. Walter Gieseking / Kleiner Trauermarsch, K.453a 2:23
2. Walter Gieseking / 8 Variations in F Major on Mignon's Arie "Come Un' Agnello" From Sarti's "Fra in Due Litigante Il Terzo Gode 7:40
3. Walter Gieseking / 10 Variations in G Major on "Unser Dummer Pobel Meint" Form Gluck's "Die Pilgfimme Von Mecca", K.455 13:36
4. Walter Gieseking / Fantasia in C miner, K.475 11:57
5. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.14 in C mimor, K.457 - 1. Allegro 3:50
6. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.14 in C mimor, K.457 - 2. Adagio 7:35
7. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.14 in C mimor, K.457 - 3. Molto allegro 4:39
8. Walter Gieseking / Rondo in D major, K.485 4:49
9. Walter Gieseking / Sonata Movement and Minuet in B flat major, K.498a - Allegro 4:28
10. Walter Gieseking / Sonata Movement and Minuet in B flat major, K.498a - Minuet (Allegretto) 3:05
11. Walter Gieseking / 12 Variations in B Flat Major on an Allegretto, K,500

Tracklisting - CD7

1. Deutsche Tänze KV 509 Nr. 1-6 10:51
2. Rondo für Klavier Nr. 3 a-moll KV 511 7:57
3. Allegro und Andante für Klavier KV 533: 1. Allegro 5:57
4. Allegro und Andante für Klavier KV 533: 2. Andante 7:24
5. Rondo. Allegretto KV 494 6:05
6. Adagio für Klavier h-moll KV 540 6:19
7. Sonate für Klavier KV 545: 1. Allegro 3:11
8. Sonate für Klavier KV 545: 2. Andante 4:56
9. Sonate für Klavier KV 545: 3. Rondo Allegretto 1:46
10. Sonate für Klavier no. 19 in F-dur K. 547a: 1. Allegro 4:20
11. Sonate für Klavier no. 19 in F-dur K. 547a: 2. Rondo (Allegretto)

Tracklisting - CD8

1. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.16 in B Flat Major, K,570 - 1. Allegro 5:58
2. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.16 in B Flat Major, K,570 - 2. Adagio 8:03
3. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.16 in B Flat Major, K,570 - 3. Allegretto 3:52
4. Walter Gieseking / 9 Variations in D Major on a Minuet of Duport, K.573 8:17
5. Walter Gieseking / Eine kleine gigue in G Major, K.574 1:39
6. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.17 in D Major, K.576 - 1. Allegro 4:47
7. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.17 in D Major, K.576 - 2. Adagio 5:06
8. Walter Gieseking / Piano Sonata No.17 in D Major, K.576 - 3. Allegretto 3:50
9. Walter Gieseking / Andantino in E Flat Major, K.236 1:46
10. Walter Gieseking / Minuet in D Major, K.355 2:38
11. Walter Gieseking / Adagio in C Major, K.356 (for glass Harmonica) 3:43
12. Walter Gieseking / 8 Variations in F Major On The Song "Ein weib ist das herrlichste ding", K.613 13:26
13. Walter Gieseking / Andante in F Major, K.616 (for Mechanical Clock)