As a regular and happy visitor of Sheet Music Archives, I would like to

make here some observations that could be useful for you and other music

lovers:



Here is the solution for Mozart's "mystery sonata". I got it on page

# 1031 of  the excellent biography "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" written (in

french) by Jean and Brigitte Masson and published in 1990 by the

"Librairie Arth�me Fayard" in Paris. I ignore if there is somewhere an

english version available.

This "sonata" is , in fact, not a complete and official Mozart sonata..

The "Allegro", probably composed in 1786,  is now numbered  " k 498a -

Allegro in B flat for piano".

The "Minuet" could be, according to Alfred Einstein,  a transposition

of  the - unfortunately lost - Minuet and Trio initially ment for "A

Little Night Music" k 525.

The remaining  "Andante" and "Finale",  simply appear to be

transpositions of some movements of Mozart's Piano Concertos # 15, 18

and 27 !

Published by Andr� during the year 1798 , thus a long time after

Mozart's death,  this  "sonata", defined as "Opus LXII  # 2"  !!!!,  has

only to be seen as a commercial stunt, probably ment to improve

Constance's precarious financial situation.



--from P. Nuis