Allegro in D major, K. 626b/16 (K. Anh.A 66)
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Mozart’s Allegro in D major (K. 626b/16; K. Anh.A 66) is a brief keyboard piece whose attribution and dating remain uncertain, though it is often placed in Vienna around 1773. In about seventy bars, it offers a compact, dance-tinged Allegro that sounds close to Mozart’s galant idiom—yet its unusually “stringy” keyboard writing has prompted debate about what, exactly, the surviving text represents.[1]
Background and Context
The work is commonly associated with Mozart’s Vienna visit of 1773, when he was seventeen and fresh from the Italian journeys that sharpened his theatrical and instrumental instincts.[2] The surviving source situation is thin, and modern discussion has therefore tended to focus on what can be inferred from the music’s surface—particularly its idiom, which has been described as suggestive of an orchestral texture reduced to the keyboard.[1]
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Musical Character
In D major and notated in 3/4, the piece runs to roughly 70 measures (with repeats), projecting the lightness of a stylized dance rather than the rhetorical weight of a full-scale sonata movement.[2] Its opening is marked by rapid repeated notes and other patterns that sit more naturally under bowed strings than under fingers; the same study notes prominent tone repetitions early on, plus wide skips later in the piece—features that color its brilliance but also complicate its “pianistic” profile.[1] Harmonically the first large span moves from D major toward A major before returning to close firmly in the home key, with a final cadence crowned by a fermata.[2]
[1] Uri B. Rom, “A Note on Mozart’s Newly Rediscovered Allegro in D, K. 626b/16” (discussion of texture, form, and stylistic issues).
[2] Wikipedia overview: Allegro in D major (Mozart) (basic catalog data and a concise structural outline: length, meter, tonal plan, cadences).