Dear Mr. Kilhamn, thank you sooo much for this analysis! My daughter is now studying this piece and your video turned out to be just the right thing she needs. This is really a great example of how sonatas are organized and your explanation is simple and clear enough for a 10-year-old. A wonderful lesson. Wish you all the best!
Hello! I love your breakdown of this wonderful piece. I have three students beginning it now, and I'm excited to be working on it with them. I am going to have them watch this video as your articulated the form and meaning behind the form excellently! Thank for sharing this with us! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
It is a beautiful Sonata Mozart. Excellent explanation, with details. If you were my Teacher, I would learn fast. We are moving towards 10,000 subscribers, this channel is great. Tack ♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗♥️👏.
Greetings from Brazil Man. I really like how you explain your point of view on all the pieces. I'm on First year off piano studying, and I cannot wait to start learning this beautiful composition
It's a deceptively simple sonata. The Swedish concert pianist Magnus Svensson said in a conversation once that he considered this a difficult piece to play. Hans Pålsson, professor in piano playing at the University of Lund, made a similar comment in a Swedish TV program some years ago about this sonata, adding that Mozart had no idea what would be "easy" for a beginner ...
I am doing this piece for my final analysis project in Theory 3, and hearing your opening statement regarding how well this encompasses the sonata form made me feel a lot better. I picked this one almost at random, I feel lucky!
OMG this is the exact explanation I needed! As a begginner I don't understand everything but the technical and musical description is so good and well detailed. Thank you !
I'm actually learning this piece along with chopin prelude in e minor and bach invention n8, loving that you have all of these in your channel, thank you so much for all your videos, they help me a bunch with understanding what I am playing and thinking about how I should play
I am self taught. However I have been fortunate to stumble upon a good teacher. I did have a couple of encounters with ‘piano teachers'. However, as a lifetime instructor/examiner in an entirely different subject, I was not impressed. As a result of just a few lessons with my new teacher I realise how his instruction has drawn some curtains away. At the very start of this video I heard immediately the professional evenness of the playing. Previously that would not have been a feature which resonated. It tells me my tuition fees will be money well spent.
i humbly put forth a note I see others have mentioned.. 'sonata facile' would be read in italian, not french.. it's Mozart after all.. so FA - chee - leh . amazing class, knowledge and skill. thanks !
Thank you so much for the analysis! It helps me so much with playing the piece and memorising the score. Why hasn't TH-cam recommended your channel earlier to me?
Wow , thanks so very much for this video, it's been sometime since I played this but now have another reason to take a closer look, your ability as a teacher and pianist is just wonderful. Will be looking many more of your videos.
I just found this great site and I love watching your analysis on famous piano pieces! While listening to this Mozart sonata, something caught my ear; it sounds as in the bar no 21, you play D as the third note in the first right hand arpeggio instead of C. I know this comment is not very relevant in relation to your analysis of the piece, but it was just little something that caught my ear. Anyway, thank you very much for creating this channel!
thank you, amazing and very enlightening, I often just play but don't have a deep understanding of what I'm playing, can you analyze the 2nd and 3rd movements too? (andante and rondo) ... thanks
Thank you!! this is a great analysis. I wish many teachers explain like this all the pieces they assign for students. Can you please analyze Mozart K310 A minor.
That's why I'm here ;) It's not often I can say this but Yes I'm actually planning on doing the A minor sonata (1st and maybe 2nd mvt) later in the autumn!
7:17 It's a trap! 2nd bar, 2nd beat, last 16th note, Mozart breaks out of the sequence just to make sure you pay attention. 16th rest la #fa *do* (16th rest A #F *C*).
Hello Mr. Kilhamn! I really enjoy your videos! I was wondering if you could take a request. It is a piece that has stuck with me for a long time and helped me through a mourning season: Lizst's third of his 3 Concert Etudes in D-Flat major, "Un Sospiro". Would you be willing to do an analysis and performance of this piece? :)
@@RUT812 The Italian, French and Spanish pronunciations are entirely different given the word looks so similar, as your interesting point makes clear. We use the word facile in English as well, though pronounce it ‘fass-eye-l’, so that makes four variations. The correct Italian pronunciation is better spelled phonetically as *’fah*-chee-leh’. (pormigal1230’s suggestion above does not work in English). Mozart’s K545 was published as a Sonata facile (Italian singular), Beethoven’s sonatas Opus 49 were published as Deux Sonates faciles (French plural).
What about the second movement? In particular I am most intrigued to know where to use the pedals and especially the sustaining pedal as in the Henle Text I have there are no markings?
Thank you for your video. I agree with your teacher - practicing scales and arpeggios while playing actual pieces. That's why I decided to learn this piece :). However, once in a while I play those Hanon exercises I remember to warm up the fingers, but I usually I don't have much time and I just want to jump into the fun of playing music. What scale or arpeggio exercises do you recommend?
Hi, thank you for all the information and remarkable analysis you have done. It's very impressive that with simple and modern ideas you managed to give the proper analysis for each musical phrase. May I ask if your familiar with any book that gives similar explanations for more study on the concept? Thank you very much again.
Thanks, I'm so happy you like it! No, it's actually one reason I started the channel because I had this way of presenting/analyzing that I haven't seen much elsewhere. But at the same time nothing is my original ideas, just my collection of ideas from me having learnt how to play the music, the style, and music/harmonic theory. And it's different for different musical styles/periods: For the classical period (Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven) I recommend Charles Rosen's books: "The Classical Style" or "Sonata forms" for more in-deapth study of the music of that genre. For the romantic period, also Rosen "The Romantic Generation" or much more academic Carl Dahlhaus "1900th Century Music". Baroque and earlier music I know less about. Modern: the lecture series "The Unanswered question" by Leonard Bernstein episode 5 (actually all lectures are great for different aspects of music history/evolution).
@@SonataSecrets Thank you very much. During my research, I found this book archive.org/details/sonataitsformmea00markuoft it's old and only for Mozart, but I think it has some information. Check it you might find it interesting. Thank you again.
teacher, I read the score but I want to understand something... when everything is in C according to the staff but suddenly it starts to put flats, how do I name those scales or chords? Do you look for the note that has those flats in the key signature and name it that way? I think it doesn't give me good results like this.... I already did the exercise.... Can you explain it to me in a simple way?
I'm afraid not with this sonata. But I have done the second movement of the A minor sonata K.310 - there are similarities in the character and approach as a slow middle movement in major (e.g. melody, ornamentation) th-cam.com/video/eUD3OpONns4/w-d-xo.html
Sorry to disappoint you there! These days I'm mixing some videos with it and some analysis only. There's always a list of contents in the description though.
Is this using the original sheet? In the one I have the first two eighth notes of each group of four in bar 11 are slurred together, instead of all of them being staccato.
To continue my previous comment, the same thing seems to occur in what you call the ”2nd Subject”; in the corresponding bar, in the first right hand arpeggio, you play G as the third instead of F.
This sonata is similar in style to the two "Leichte" sonatas of Beethoven, Op. 49. While marked "easy," none of these sonatas are technically easy for a beginner to play. They require careful articulation and touch from an accomplished pianist, which makes the music sound easy to the listener.
Mozart’s Sonata facile K545 (Italian singular), and Beethoven’s two Sonates faciles Opus 49 (French plural) are easy intermediate works with few technical or interpretive demands; all three works are generally overrated by TH-cam commentators, and in both cases represent their respective composers’ least impressive piano sonatas (Beethoven’s to the degree that Opus 49 should not be included in the canon at all).
Great video, but why play almost everything legato? For example, the 1st and 2nd measures, I am not really hearing a difference. 1st measure is played too "connected" or "slurred".
A look at Beethoven's Sonata 1-10 analysis th-cam.com/video/3D77-H2Jo1o/w-d-xo.html SERGİ = EXPOSİTİON GELİŞME= DEVELOPMENT SERGİNİN TEKRARI=REEXPOSİTİON ANA TEMA=FİRST THEME YAN TEMA=2. THEME BİTİŞ TEMASI=CODA
I believe this sonata was Mozarts attempt to cash in on Clementi's Sonatinas which were very popular. Everybody was buying them and Mozart wanted a piece of that action. I don't blame him at all.
Practicing just scales could actually do musical harm to the princess Elizabeth. - Between you and me, nothing could do musical harm to the princess Elizabeth.
Mozart had a profound, albeit coarse, sense of humour: it's usually glossed over, but we find it in his letters to and comments on some of the outstanding soloists of his time. I'm 78 and a poet, which Mozart most certainly was as well in music. Apollo was god of both music & poetry, Mozart flourished hugely in both realms. Let's hope we get at least one more of his genius!
I don't get why people like this piece. I just hate it. I am a composer myself and love Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Elgar and so on, there are so many I love I just can't seem to like Mozart. His music just annoys me a lot and is so simple it sounds rubbish. Also extremely predictable. Just my opinion though.
K545 was published with an Italian title ‘Sonata facile’ which does not need translating; he called it ‘a little sonata for beginners’. As such, apart from the sublime simplicity of the first four bars, it’s really not a yardstick by which to measure Mozart; that said, if you aren’t keen on the rest of Mozart, music is a bit like food - some you like, some you don’t, and that’s all cool.
Repent and trust in Jesus. We deserve Hell for our sin. Lying, lusting, etc, but God sent his son Jesus to die on the cross and ride from the grave to free us from sin. If you repent and trust in him youll be saved. Romans 3:23 John 3:16❤❤😊❤
delightful--functionally the better correction of slip in analysis of recap is simply to say 4th up rather than 5th down + 8va up...but if you don't agree i yield: you are the maestro
Dear Mr. Kilhamn, thank you sooo much for this analysis! My daughter is now studying this piece and your video turned out to be just the right thing she needs. This is really a great example of how sonatas are organized and your explanation is simple and clear enough for a 10-year-old. A wonderful lesson. Wish you all the best!
What a wonderful review! :) I wish her the best with her piano studies as well.
Hello! I love your breakdown of this wonderful piece. I have three students beginning it now, and I'm excited to be working on it with them. I am going to have them watch this video as your articulated the form and meaning behind the form excellently! Thank for sharing this with us! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
You are the best teacher. 🌹
Very interesting analysis. Mozart is one of those composes I am not really drawn to, but enjoy thoroughly when intimate with his work.
sometimes its really obvious that it was written by a child, other times its just pure genious
It's like that for me too. I always end up feeling like you can't argue with the music, it's just so natural.
Mozart peices arent hard. Just need to memorize the pattern, practice, lastly play with dynamic.
@Hamouza piano Hamza stop spaming
"Mozart is one of those composes I am not really drawn to," then your soul is half dead.
It is a beautiful Sonata Mozart. Excellent explanation, with details. If you were my Teacher, I would learn fast. We are moving towards 10,000 subscribers, this channel is great. Tack ♥️💗♥️💗♥️💗♥️👏.
Thanks! Yes, it's great to see the community grow like this. :)
I'm liking this channel.
Emoji's are very good addition and conveys the message better for people who are visual.
What a perfect gem this channel is. Thank you~
I really hope to see some other movements of K. 545 from this channel! This episode was amazing!
Greetings from Brazil Man. I really like how you explain your point of view on all the pieces. I'm on First year off piano studying, and I cannot wait to start learning this beautiful composition
Thanks Abner! Good luck with your studies!
I don't know how to thank you form the harmonic analysis of the development part! Thanks form Italy 🇮🇹
You're welcome :)
Awesome video. So glad to find this (recommended by youtube)! I'm learning on my own. Also love the smileys 😊😊😊
It's a deceptively simple sonata. The Swedish concert pianist Magnus Svensson said in a conversation once that he considered this a difficult piece to play. Hans Pålsson, professor in piano playing at the University of Lund, made a similar comment in a Swedish TV program some years ago about this sonata, adding that Mozart had no idea what would be "easy" for a beginner ...
I am doing this piece for my final analysis project in Theory 3, and hearing your opening statement regarding how well this encompasses the sonata form made me feel a lot better. I picked this one almost at random, I feel lucky!
OMG this is the exact explanation I needed! As a begginner I don't understand everything but the technical and musical description is so good and well detailed. Thank you !
I'm actually learning this piece along with chopin prelude in e minor and bach invention n8, loving that you have all of these in your channel, thank you so much for all your videos, they help me a bunch with understanding what I am playing and thinking about how I should play
Thanks, I'm so happy to hear that! :) They are good pieces to learn.
Thanks again for another great analysis!
I love your generous work.
Mozart's music is so beautiful ❤️. Your analysis makes the understanding so appealing. Thank you
This lesson is one of your best. I almost attended more than 10 times and enjoyed your explanation and your playing. Thank you sir 🙏
Thank you. Your videos are amazing. I hope to see more videos of Mozart!
Thank you! There will be a few more Mozart this autumn.
@@SonataSecrets yay! 👏
A very nice and thorough analysis, sir. And insightful too. Thank you!
Greatest analysis of all. I’ve watched many times and never got tired of it.
Thank you Mr Kilhamn, It's a great analysis. Gbu.
I am self taught. However I have been fortunate to stumble upon a good teacher. I did have a couple of encounters with ‘piano teachers'. However, as a lifetime instructor/examiner in an entirely different subject, I was not impressed. As a result of just a few lessons with my new teacher I realise how his instruction has drawn some curtains away. At the very start of this video I heard immediately the professional evenness of the playing. Previously that would not have been a feature which resonated. It tells me my tuition fees will be money well spent.
i humbly put forth a note I see others have mentioned..
'sonata facile' would be read in italian, not french.. it's Mozart after all.. so FA - chee - leh .
amazing class, knowledge and skill. thanks !
…and it’s a ‘sonata’, not a ‘sonada’.
Thank you so much for the analysis! It helps me so much with playing the piece and memorising the score. Why hasn't TH-cam recommended your channel earlier to me?
Excepcionalmente didáctico. Felicitaciones.
thnkkkks I loved your explanation
Soooooooooo helpful!!!!! Engaging yet easy to understand. Thankyou so much!!!
Thank you!
Excellent explanation, thank you so much!
Thank You. Lovely
idk why i feel like mozart didn’t even know these stuff but just wrote what came into his head and its just perfect
Wow , thanks so very much for this video, it's been sometime since I played this but now have another reason to take a closer look, your ability as a teacher and pianist is just wonderful.
Will be looking many more of your videos.
Thank you so much Bruce!
Thank You!
I just found this great site and I love watching your analysis on famous piano pieces! While listening to this Mozart sonata, something caught my ear; it sounds as in the bar no 21, you play D as the third note in the first right hand arpeggio instead of C. I know this comment is not very relevant in relation to your analysis of the piece, but it was just little something that caught my ear. Anyway, thank you very much for creating this channel!
Adorável aula.
Belissima aula e musica!!!!!!!
Great information and entertaining. Thanks
Indeed, the Wonder Child Mozart, was an true Composer for Sonatas, an MASTER.
thank you, amazing and very enlightening, I often just play but don't have a deep understanding of what I'm playing, can you analyze the 2nd and 3rd movements too? (andante and rondo) ... thanks
This was fantastic. Thanks so much, from a beginning adult piano student.
Thank you for all the info about this sonata! I am practicing it right now and I find this info very helpful!
Glad it was helpful! :)
Thank you very much for sharing.
Thank you!! this is a great analysis. I wish many teachers explain like this all the pieces they assign for students. Can you please analyze Mozart K310 A minor.
That's why I'm here ;)
It's not often I can say this but Yes I'm actually planning on doing the A minor sonata (1st and maybe 2nd mvt) later in the autumn!
@@SonataSecrets Great Looking forward to it. 1st movement would be great!
Done! th-cam.com/video/IIUoryL-qXU/w-d-xo.html
@@SonataSecrets wow Thank you!!
Thank you for sharing
Very nice explanation👏👏👏👏
Brilliant analysis! You could add that the 2nd subject is a derivative of the 1st, sort of an inversion in double time.
The longer I study this the harder and more amazing I realise it is.
Yep
@@RUT812
Nope.
7:17 It's a trap! 2nd bar, 2nd beat, last 16th note, Mozart breaks out of the sequence just to make sure you pay attention. 16th rest la #fa *do* (16th rest A #F *C*).
Ótima explicação
Shout-outs to mozart❤
Hello Mr. Kilhamn! I really enjoy your videos! I was wondering if you could take a request. It is a piece that has stuck with me for a long time and helped me through a mourning season: Lizst's third of his 3 Concert Etudes in D-Flat major, "Un Sospiro". Would you be willing to do an analysis and performance of this piece? :)
Hi Alexis. I haven't played Un sospiro before, but maybe I will do in the future and then I could do a video on it.
"Facile" is pronounced "fachillea" sort of, it"s Italian and it means "easy". Thanks for the videos you're great!
Thank you Sandal!
Pas si « facile » pour moi lol😉🙂 thanks so much …merci beaucoup 😊
Easy in Spanish is fácil (FAH-seal)
@@RUT812
The Italian, French and Spanish pronunciations are entirely different given the word looks so similar, as your interesting point makes clear.
We use the word facile in English as well, though pronounce it ‘fass-eye-l’, so that makes four variations.
The correct Italian pronunciation is better spelled phonetically as *’fah*-chee-leh’.
(pormigal1230’s suggestion above does not work in English).
Mozart’s K545 was published as a Sonata facile (Italian singular), Beethoven’s sonatas Opus 49 were published as Deux Sonates faciles (French plural).
Thank you very much. Always have loved this piece. Feels great to know the theory behind it. ❤😊
Obrigada por compartilhar
Very interesting and well explained analysis.
Can you analyze the Rondo in D Major K. 485 - W.A. Mozart?
What about the second movement? In particular I am most intrigued to know where to use the pedals and especially the sustaining pedal as in the Henle Text I have there are no markings?
Thanks
Thank you for your video. I agree with your teacher - practicing scales and arpeggios while playing actual pieces. That's why I decided to learn this piece :). However, once in a while I play those Hanon exercises I remember to warm up the fingers, but I usually I don't have much time and I just want to jump into the fun of playing music. What scale or arpeggio exercises do you recommend?
Hi, thank you for all the information and remarkable analysis you have done. It's very impressive that with simple and modern ideas you managed to give the proper analysis for each musical phrase. May I ask if your familiar with any book that gives similar explanations for more study on the concept? Thank you very much again.
Thanks, I'm so happy you like it!
No, it's actually one reason I started the channel because I had this way of presenting/analyzing that I haven't seen much elsewhere. But at the same time nothing is my original ideas, just my collection of ideas from me having learnt how to play the music, the style, and music/harmonic theory.
And it's different for different musical styles/periods: For the classical period (Haydn/Mozart/Beethoven) I recommend Charles Rosen's books: "The Classical Style" or "Sonata forms" for more in-deapth study of the music of that genre. For the romantic period, also Rosen "The Romantic Generation" or much more academic Carl Dahlhaus "1900th Century Music". Baroque and earlier music I know less about. Modern: the lecture series "The Unanswered question" by Leonard Bernstein episode 5 (actually all lectures are great for different aspects of music history/evolution).
@@SonataSecrets Thank you very much. During my research, I found this book archive.org/details/sonataitsformmea00markuoft it's old and only for Mozart, but I think it has some information. Check it you might find it interesting. Thank you again.
That looks interesting, thanks for the tip!
I'm okay with scales and arppegio, But Struggling with the trills. Any suggestions?
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teacher, I read the score but I want to understand something... when everything is in C according to the staff but suddenly it starts to put flats, how do I name those scales or chords? Do you look for the note that has those flats in the key signature and name it that way? I think it doesn't give me good results like this.... I already did the exercise.... Can you explain it to me in a simple way?
Thanks for the video! Will you do a video on the second movement aswell?
I'm afraid not with this sonata. But I have done the second movement of the A minor sonata K.310 - there are similarities in the character and approach as a slow middle movement in major (e.g. melody, ornamentation)
th-cam.com/video/eUD3OpONns4/w-d-xo.html
@@SonataSecrets thanks for the reply!
I was waiting for the performance at the end. Great review though.
Sorry to disappoint you there! These days I'm mixing some videos with it and some analysis only. There's always a list of contents in the description though.
Hi, can you do an analysis of the gnossienne 1 by Satie?
Are you a fan of Satie?
I think I will do that in the near future. I have done Gymnopedie no 1 and can't argue with Satie's genius!
Video on Gnossienne no. 1 is out now: th-cam.com/video/em4DWxZORI8/w-d-xo.html
@@SonataSecrets thanks! I Will check asap!
Mozart was the piano shred guy 😊
could you do the rest of the 545? thanks!
Is this using the original sheet? In the one I have the first two eighth notes of each group of four in bar 11 are slurred together, instead of all of them being staccato.
I use a Peters edition from imslp (see the description) - it says that it's Urtext so that should be the original.
My Schirmer book of Mozart's 19 sonatas calls this: Sonata III. (???) Where does "16" come from?
To continue my previous comment, the same thing seems to occur in what you call the ”2nd Subject”; in the corresponding bar, in the first right hand arpeggio, you play G as the third instead of F.
This sonata is similar in style to the two "Leichte" sonatas of Beethoven, Op. 49. While marked "easy," none of these sonatas are technically easy for a beginner to play. They require careful articulation and touch from an accomplished pianist, which makes the music sound easy to the listener.
Mozart’s Sonata facile K545 (Italian singular), and Beethoven’s two Sonates faciles Opus 49 (French plural) are easy intermediate works with few technical or interpretive demands; all three works are generally overrated by TH-cam commentators, and in both cases represent their respective composers’ least impressive piano sonatas (Beethoven’s to the degree that Opus 49 should not be included in the canon at all).
You look like what I would look like from the future, and also seem to be doing exactly what I would want to be doing in the future too
13:54 It is funny that the meaning of that motive changed with respect to the first part.. from I IV in G to V I in C
Trill at m.15 seems incorrect on the note. it should be 31, not 13. You played it right though.
Why no 2nd and 3rd mvt???
Great video, but why play almost everything legato? For example, the 1st and 2nd measures, I am not really hearing a difference. 1st measure is played too "connected" or "slurred".
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I love listening to music but I cannot understand a thing in this explanation except that it was Mozart's way of making music out of scales.
Mozart’s music is above words
A look at Beethoven's Sonata 1-10 analysis
th-cam.com/video/3D77-H2Jo1o/w-d-xo.html
SERGİ = EXPOSİTİON
GELİŞME= DEVELOPMENT
SERGİNİN TEKRARI=REEXPOSİTİON
ANA TEMA=FİRST THEME
YAN TEMA=2. THEME
BİTİŞ TEMASI=CODA
i wish i could play this piece like that. it's so hard to get the key sounds to be pearly.
I believe this sonata was Mozarts attempt to cash in on Clementi's Sonatinas which were very popular. Everybody was buying them and Mozart wanted a piece of that action. I don't blame him at all.
Clementi’s well-known Sonatinas Opus 36 were published in 1797; Mozart died in 1791.
Your point makes no sense.
Practicing just scales could actually do musical harm to the princess Elizabeth. - Between you and me, nothing could do musical harm to the princess Elizabeth.
Mozart say "sonata facile"... and think (oh yeah!!! 🤣🤣😂🤯)
haha exactly!
Mozart had a profound, albeit coarse, sense of humour: it's usually glossed over, but we find it in his letters to and comments on some of the outstanding soloists of his time.
I'm 78 and a poet, which Mozart most certainly was as well in music. Apollo was god of both music & poetry, Mozart flourished hugely in both realms. Let's hope we get at least one more of his genius!
hes ither sweedish or finnish
I don't get why people like this piece. I just hate it. I am a composer myself and love Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Elgar and so on, there are so many I love I just can't seem to like Mozart. His music just annoys me a lot and is so simple it sounds rubbish. Also extremely predictable. Just my opinion though.
K545 was published with an Italian title ‘Sonata facile’ which does not need translating; he called it ‘a little sonata for beginners’.
As such, apart from the sublime simplicity of the first four bars, it’s really not a yardstick by which to measure Mozart; that said, if you aren’t keen on the rest of Mozart, music is a bit like food - some you like, some you don’t, and that’s all cool.
Repent and trust in Jesus. We deserve Hell for our sin. Lying, lusting, etc, but God sent his son Jesus to die on the cross and ride from the grave to free us from sin. If you repent and trust in him youll be saved.
Romans 3:23
John 3:16❤❤😊❤
Amen, Praise Black Jesus!
delightful--functionally the better correction of slip in analysis of recap is simply to say 4th up rather than 5th down + 8va up...but if you don't agree i yield: you are the maestro
no I think you're right!
Thanks