Friday 19 February 2010
Tune of the Day: Rondò
from “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The fourth and last movement of Mozart's “Little Night Music” is in sonata rondo form. This finale returns with the liveliness of the first movement, which was also marked “Allegro”. The Rondo alters between two main themes during the exposition. In the development, it modulates through various keys and ends in the tonic key of G major, then the two themes return in the recapitulation and finally end in the coda.
With this post we now have all the four movements of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Here are the links to the other three: Allegro, Romanze, Menuetto.