Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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W. A. Mozart: Piano Sonata Four Hands KV 545 in C Major

Live recording from March 9th, 2025
Ying Xiao and Stefan Bötel

1. Allegro 0:00
2. Andante 9:40
3. Rondo 16:05

More performances from our concerts:

Moldau: youtu.be/JRpS-OHvcwQ
Slavonic Dance: youtu.be/KnbB8PMFao0
Hungarian Dance: youtu.be/sdx4sDRicDI

Hello friends! Here is another performance of our concerts last year. This time we are playing the playful, cheerful and bright Piano Sonata Four Hands KV 545 in C Major by W.A. Mozart.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral repertoire. Mozart is among the greatest composers in the history of Western music, with music admired for its melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture.
Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position.
While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in Vienna, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death are largely uncertain and have thus been much mythologized.