K. 13, Sonata in F

K. 13, Sonata in F

A return to the laugh, cry, and reflect three-movement work.  The third movement’s reflections are a bit dark and eerie, kind of a new twist on a Mozart finale.  So to make this blurb a bit different, I’ll try to invent a story that fits the music.  Act one, some children walk up to a castle.  The outside is opulent. Hedges surround the cobblestone walkway leading to the pointed-arch entrance.  They bound passed each other as they sneak excited inside.  Movement two, inside the mansion is drab and abandoned.  A crumbling interior and lone tattered painting lament of the owner long passed away.  The children explore, imagining what could have been… The minuet movement: the children leave after a white haze floats across the upper walkway.  They meet at the property line and argue about what they had seen.  One says it’s a cloud of dust.  Another, a puff a smoke.  The third insists it was a ghost.  When the debate is over, none return to the castle.