One of Mozart's best-known tunes, the 'Rondo alla Turca' is actually the third and final movement from his Sonata No. 11 K331 for piano. Mozart composed Sonata No. 11 at the age of around 27 - perhaps ...
For piano students, the third movement of Mozart's Sonata in A Major, K. 331, is a popular gateway to more advanced repertoire. It became known as "Rondo Alla Turca" or "Turkish Rondo" due to Mozart's ...
The music of the elite Turkish troops that the Austrian batallions would have brought back from as long ago as the Crusades -- heavy on the percussion, with exotic, oriental colour -- had become very ...