This piece was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an Austrian composer of the Classical era, in 1788. This piece is the first of three movements, and has become quite a popular classic. Mozart wrote a large number of piano sonatas, as well as many other works for piano and other instruments.
This movement is fun and lighthearted; and develops and displays various aspects of technique, including dexterity and lightness of touch. This movement is a very good example of why it is such a good idea to learn scales, arpeggios and broken chords – many passages in this piece are based on scale or broken chord patterns.
I recorded this video in February 2020.
You may also like my recording of Impromptu no.3 in G Flat Major by Franz Schubert
You might also like these contemporary pieces with Romantic influences, which are my own original improvised music, composed in real time:
