Erin Shepherd Paper 1 rough draft 02/02/02 The third movement of Mozart’s piano sonata K. 333 in B flat major is written in fairly standard sonata-rondo form of the classical period. Its interest lies not just in the graceful, lilting melodies so typical of Mozart, but in the engaging chromaticism, the treatment of the themes in the development, and the cadenza after the recapitulation. The development is divided into four distinct sections in differing keys and motivic …showed first 75 words of 416 total…

…showed last 75 words of 416 total…as it goes through variations and augmentations while maintaining its syncopated rhythmic pattern, gaining momentum and strength as it is goes. The cadenza is important because it was something new: a new treatment of a form already well established. It is the expansion of the sonata form in the same way that the development is an expansion of a theme. This playing and experimenting with structure is an example of Mozart’s genius and influence.