E's Music Classroom: Musickit, 2007). The exposition tends to be less resolved, atonal, and discordant in sound. The form was used to create a more open structure than the Baroque fugues or rondeau forms.
What types of works commonly use this form? Sonatas (obviously) symphonies, and string quartets all make use of the three-part sonata form, although some have more elaborate variations than others, depending on the length of the piece.
Mozart
Wolfgang a. Mozart was a master of virtually every form he embraced as a composer. His symphonies and sonatas paved the way for Classical music, as he adopted the innovations of Hayden in the symphony form and made these innovations more flexible and expressive. He was also a master of the operatic form in comic works such as "The Marriage of Figaro" as well as dramatic works like "Don Giovanni." He moved opera away from the more somber themes of the earlier era, and made the operatic stage more realistic and passionate in its musical depiction of human emotions. He showed that comic opera could be great art and great music. He was also a master performer and created many small-scale works for chamber orchestras as well as symphonies. He also wrote many great religious works, such as his famous masses.
Mozart is often seen as a bridge between the Baroque and the Classical eras: "Examples of advanced and unusual writing is found both...
During his own era, many of his contemporaries felt that his works were difficult to listen to, because of their surprising instrumentations, dissonant sounds and harmonies. However, today this is seen as marking Mozart as truly a man who was ahead of his time.
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