Piano Sonata No. 7 (Mozart)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 7 in C major, K 309 (284b) (1777) is a sonata in three movements:

1. Allegro con spirito
2. Andante un poco adagio
3. Rondo (allegretto grazioso)

A typical performance takes about 16 minutes.

The work was composed during a journey to Mannheim and Paris in 1777-78. The sonata was complete in a few days in early November 1777. The andante movement is a 'portrait' of Rose Cannabich (his pupil), the 15-year-old daughter of the Mannheim Kapellmeister Christian Cannabich. Mozart described it as a sort of a portrait of "a very beautiful well-behaved girl, very sensible and demure for her age, serious, speaking little but, when she does, with grace and friendliness". Mozart's father Leopold called it "strange".

v • d • e Piano sonatas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart No. 1 in C major, K. 279 · No. 2 in F major, K. 280 · No. 3 in B flat major, K. 281 · No. 4 in E flat major, K. 282 · No. 5 in G major, K. 283 · No. 6 in D major, K. 284 · No. 7 in C major, K. 309 · No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 · No. 9 in D major, K. 311 · No. 10 in C major, K. 330 · No. 11 in A major, K. 331 · No. 12 in F major, K. 332 · No. 13 in B flat major, K. 333 · No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 · No. 15 in F major, K. 533/494 · No. 16 in C major, K. 545 · No. 17 in B flat major, K. 570 · No. 18 in D major, K. 576 List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart