What can an instrument like the fortepiano teach us about Mozart’s style? Discover the musical elements of Mozart’s music and develop teaching strategies to assist your students capture the essence of his style.  Works to be discussed include the Fantasy in D minor, k. 397, the Rondo in D Major, K. 485, and selected sonata movements.

Franz Joseph Haydn's contributions to keyboard literature include more than fifty piano sonatas and numerous other short works. Whereas his first twenty sonatas are mostly works of pedagogical value, those sonatas written during his middle and late period include representative works of the Classical Era. From ornamentation and tempo to touch and articulation, this session will shed light to common performance and teaching issues present in the keyboard works of Haydn.