Barenreiter Mozart W.a. - The Music Books Of Mozart And His Sisters - Piano

Summary of This Book

Long available only as part of a now unavailable box set, The Music Books of Mozart and His Sister for Piano is published here for the first time as a separate volume. This publication stands out for its scholarly-critical Urtext approach: it relies on the New Mozart Edition and offers an accurate restitution of everything contained in the notebooks, without selection or omission. It includes not only Mozart's early youthful pages (some ideas later serving as starting points for more developed works) but also elements attributed to Leopold Mozart and other composers, making this collection a particularly rich musical and pedagogical document.

The preface written by the great Mozart specialist Wolfgang Plath provides valuable insight: it helps to situate the pieces, understand their function (study, essay, fragment), and addresses the question of attribution when multiple hands or sources are involved. For both student and teacher, this context enhances the musical interest: one does not simply work on pieces, but explores a true 18th-century keyboard "laboratory."

Thanks to a progression ranging from accessible to intermediate level, the volume is suitable both for discovering classical phrasing, articulation, and ornamentation, and for deepening reading and style. The facsimile illustrations taken from the manuscripts complete the experience: they offer a vivid view of the sources and invite a more conscious approach to the musical text, particularly useful in piano lessons and interpretation work.

Technical specifications

Musical Genre

Classical

Publication

Sheet music

Composer	Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus	Genre	Urtext Edition
Edition	BA 9177	Language	German, English
Instrumentation	Piano	Difficulty	Easy to moderately difficult