Piano Piece in C major (doubtful), K. 649
av Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Piano Piece in C major (K. 649) is a short solo keyboard work transmitted in an extant source but regarded today as a work of doubtful authenticity. The International Mozarteum Foundation’s Köchel catalogue dates it to 1769 (place unknown), when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was 13.[1]
Mozart’s Life at the Time
In 1769 Mozart was 13 and, with his family, stood on the threshold of the first Italian journey (1769–1771), a period dominated by travel, keyboard playing, and an intense focus on Italian styles.[2] For K. 649, however, no secure place of composition is known, and modern cataloguing treats the authorship itself as doubtful.[1]
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Musical Character
What can be said with confidence is limited to the catalogue profile: an extant, completed miniature for solo keyboard in C major.[1] Heard in the broad context of Mozart’s childhood clavier output—pieces often designed for domestic performance and study—such a modest C-major sketch would fit the practical, didactic side of his early writing, even if the surviving evidence does not allow the same certainty of attribution as the securely transmitted juvenilia.[3]
[1] International Mozarteum Foundation (Köchel-Verzeichnis): KV 649 — status (doubtful), dating (1769), key (C major), transmission (extant).
[2] Wikipedia: Mozart biography overview (context for 1769 and the Italian journeys).
[3] Wikipedia: Köchel catalogue table entry noting K. 649 as a doubtful piano piece in C major dated 1769 (age 13).