Piano Sonata No. 18 (Mozart)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major, K 576 (1789) is a sonata in three movements:
- Allegro
- Adagio
- Allegretto
A typical performance takes about 15 minutes.
In a letter to a fellow Freemason Puchberg, Mozart wrote "meanwhile I am working on six easy piano sonatas for Princess Friederike and six quartets for the King". K576 was the only sonata completed (and is not that 'easy'). The sonata would also be Mozart's last.
The first and third movements (apart from the lyrical second subjects) are very much written as two-part inventions.
