Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Marche Turque

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The Sonata was composed between spring and summer 1778 during Mozart's second Parisian sojourn, and the "French" spirit blows through these pages. The third and final movement, famous as the "Marche turque" (Turkish March), irresistibly evokes the "turqueries" in vogue throughout Western Europe, from Molière's "Bourgeois gentilhomme" to Mozart's opera bouffe L'Enlèvement au Sérail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). Conventional in form, with alternating minor/major refrains and verses, and in writing, its arpeggios and appogiaturas evoking some "Turkish" musical instrument, this movement brilliantly concludes the sonata, and its irresistible something will continue to seduce for a long time to come.