Minuet in F major for Keyboard, K. 5
par Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart’s Minuet in F major (K. 5) is a tiny Salzburg dance from 1762, written when he was six years old. Notated in the family teaching notebook associated with his sister Maria Anna (“Nannerl”), it offers an unusually clear glimpse of how quickly the child absorbed courtly style at the keyboard.[2]
Mozart’s Life at the Time
In 1762, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was living in Salzburg and receiving intensive musical instruction within the family circle, with Leopold Mozart closely involved in preserving the children’s earliest keyboard pieces.[2] The date traditionally attached to K. 5 is 5 July 1762, placing it among the very first works attributed to Mozart.[2]
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Musical Character
K. 5 is a short keyboard minuet in F major, written in 3/4 and presented in two repeated sections—an “extended binary” layout typical of simple dance pieces.[2] Sources describe it as featuring prominent triplet motion (hence its common association with a “triplet minuet”), a texture that both animates the surface and keeps the left hand largely in supportive, chordal roles.[2] At roughly a minute in performance and confined to a single page of notation, it reads less like a concert item than a neat, practical study in phrase symmetry, cadences, and steady dance rhythm.[1]
Partition
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[1] IMSLP score page for Mozart, Minuet in F major, K. 5 (public-domain editions and scans).
[2] Wikipedia overview of the Nannerl Notenbuch, including the entry on “Minuet in F ‘Triolen-Menuett’, K. 5” (date, brief description, form).