Piano Sonata No. 8 (Mozart)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 9 in A minor, K. 310 ( 300d ) ( 1778) is a sonata in three movements:

A typical recording takes about 22 minutes.

The A minor sonata is the first of only two piano sonatas that Mozart wrote in a minor key. Composed around the time of the death of Mozart's mother around, it is the darkest of his piano sonatas. In particular, the last sentence is marked by an obsessive, hunted appearing mood with her climax almost at the end of the sentence where the unstoppable development is interrupted on his end of repeated becoming quiet passages. Especially with the second theme of the first part, with its constant sixteenth-note motion, this sonata is one of the most difficult that Mozart wrote.

Even after 60 years applies Dinu Lipattis recording as a benchmark.