Pienaar/Skaerved - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Palatine Sonatas K.301-306

At the age of 22, Mozart was bemoaning lost love and decided to �apply myself conscientiously to the clavier duets�, He finished the full set of six Sonatas for Piano � with Violin � in the summer of 1778 and dedicated to the Countess Elizabeth Auguste, Electress of Palatine and Bavaria. They have become known as the �Palatine Sonatas� and are the earliest (relatively) mature works in this instrumental combination, his first essays in the form being at the age of ten.