Sonatas Nos 7-12 K296 K376-k380 Vln Pno Bk 2

Volume 2 of the complete edition of Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Cliff Eisen.This complete edition of the Mozart Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin has been researched and prepared by Cliff Eisen, one of the most distinguished Mozart scholars of our time. Professor Eisen recognises that many of the apparent inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies of Mozart's notation are perfectly deliberate, and that the attempts in many other editions to impose uniformity upon similarphrases or musical paragraphs can be misguided. As he writes in the pre face: '?the notion that the classical style represents a model of symmetry, balance, and clarity is for the most part a 19th-century fiction ? it has little to do with Mozart's actual practice, which is based primarily on variety of both content and articulation. So in this new edition, alternative readings found in parallel passages are preserved, rather than being sterilised by a spurious quest for conformity. Naturall