Adagio 
Menuetto I, Menuetto II 
Allegro 
 

Mozart composed his first set of six solo piano sonatas in 1774 and 1775. The 18-year-old composer spent three months in Munich working on his opera La finta giardinera (first performed on 13 January 1775) and the last of the set (K.284) was written for Baron von Dürnitz in Munich. The other five (including K.282) were composed either in Salzburg during 1774, or in Munich on Mozart’s arrival in the city. Each of the sonatas in this set is in three movements, but K.282 is the only one to begin with a slow movement. This is an expansive Adagio based on two themes and incorporating a development of the first theme as part of the second half of the movement, after which this theme is only heard again in the coda. This is followed by a Minuet, in B flat major with a contrasting second Minuet at the centre of the movement in the work’s home key of E flat. The main theme of the finale is notable for its leaping octaves and a mood of high spirits.