How To Teach Mozart Sonata in B-flat Major K.570

Today we’re discussing how to teach the lyrical first movement of Mozart’s Sonata in B-flat Major, K.570. While it is more mature than the K.545, it is still within reach for upper intermediate or early advanced students.

Recommended Editions:

• Henle urtext - Sonatas Volume 2 with fingering

• Henle urtext - Sonata K.570 alone

• Mozart - Selected Intermediate to Early Advanced Piano Sonata Movements (Alfred Masterworks: Maurice Hinson): 

Syllabus listings for difficulty level:

• RCM Level 9

• Illinois AIM Level 11

• Jane Magrath Level 10+

Required knowledge/skills for the video below:

• Early advanced skill; experience with easier sonatas and difficult sonatinas

• Students should already understand sonata form

• Comfort with B-flat major (and F major); several accidentals; accuracy is so important in Mozart!

• Ease of technique - effortless scale passages and many opportunities for rotation

• RH rotation in passagework and trills

• LH rotation in Alberti patterns

• Slurs in the first theme and connection to violin articulation markings

• Lovely development! Conversational; mysterious minor explorations

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