Turkish March Piano Visualizer
Mozart's Turkish March, the Rondo alla Turca, as falling notes on a glowing keyboard. Restyle it and export the video, or drop your own recording or MIDI file.
Turkish March at a glance
- Work
- Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331, 3rd movement "Alla turca"
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Composed
- Around 1783
- Published
- 1784
- Key
- A minor, ending in A major
- Tempo
- Allegretto
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- The demo plays
- The opening of the rondo, 54 s
What you see in the falling notes
The right hand runs in quick groups of four notes over a steady left hand, so the melody falls as a tight ripple of short notes. When the music turns to A major, the left hand plays fast rolled chords that imitate the band's drums, and the bass lights up in bursts.
- 766notes
- 14.2notes per second on average
- 24notes in the busiest second
- 4notes sounding at once, at most
- D2 to C#648 keys from the lowest note to the highest
- 30%of the notes below middle C, in the left-hand colour
Counted from the MIDI file of the demo excerpt (54 s). The sustain pedal goes down 68 times.
About Turkish March
The Turkish March is the last movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11, probably written around 1783 in Vienna or Salzburg and published by Artaria in Vienna in 1784. Mozart headed it "Alla turca", in the Turkish style.
Vienna was fascinated by the music of the Ottoman Janissary bands, with their drums, cymbals and triangles, and the rondo imitates them on the piano. Only one page of Mozart's autograph was known until 2014, when four more pages of the sonata turned up in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest.
MIDI of the demo: Bernd Krueger, piano-midi.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE. Videos made from it carry the same credit and licence (terms). How to make one: step by step.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Mozart headed the movement "Alla turca", in the Turkish style. It imitates the Ottoman Janissary bands that were fashionable in Vienna at the time, with rolled chords in the left hand standing in for drums and cymbals.
Intermediate. The runs have to be fast and even, and the rolled left-hand chords of the A major refrain need a loose wrist, but nothing in it is virtuoso.
Yes. The composition is in the public domain, but the MIDI file of this demo is by Bernd Krueger (piano-midi.de) under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, so a video made from it has to credit him, for example "MIDI: Bernd Krueger, piano-midi.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE", and be shared under the same licence. With your own recording or MIDI file of the piece, only your rights to that file count.
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