Green notes: right hand, blue notes: left hand. Preview played right in your browser with the app's real piano (lightweight version). Inside Pianovera: full multi-layer sound, fingering display and Wait mode.
Mozart logged it in his own catalogue as "a little sonata for beginners", and teachers have taken him at his word ever since: its MIDI is an absolute staple of early piano years. Concert pianists smile at that: everything in this piece is exposed. One uneven scale, one lumpy Alberti bass, and the illusion of easiness collapses on stage.
It's the laboratory of Classical style: Alberti bass in the left hand, scales running both directions, crisp ornaments. We recommend it to anyone a year or two in, not because it's easy but because it teaches cleanly everything the Classical repertoire will keep asking for.
The first movement of the Sonata Facile: the first notes
Right hand, in letter names (C4 = middle C): C5 E5 G5 B4 C5 D5 C5 A5 G5 C6 G5 F5 E5 F5 E5 A4 B4 C5 D5 E5 F5 G5 A5 G5… The rest scrolls in the preview above, with the fingering, and the sheet music PDF has the whole piece.
Play the first movement of the Sonata Facile on the virtual piano
Here are the virtual piano notes for the first movement of the Sonata Facile, in computer keyboard letters: the first 5 bars of the melody. One key per note, read left to right; dark keys are the sharps, and a thin line marks each bar. The melody sounds an octave lower than written, so it fits on the keyboard.
Letters for a QWERTY keyboardYour keyboard: 30 notes
QETMQWQ
YTITRERE
NMQWERTYTREWQMN
▶ Play on the virtual pianoThe piano opens with this piece loaded: the key to play lights up and waits for you.
What you'll be working on
Alberti bass: even, discreet, no thumb accent
Equal scales in both directions (thumb crossings again)
Mozartian trills and grace notes, short and clear
Sharp articulation with very little pedal
Playing the first movement of the Sonata Facile on piano with Pianovera
Pianovera's Wait mode is perfect for the central scale passages: every note waits for your finger, so you can check the thumb crossing with zero tempo stress. The per-piece accuracy stat will tell you if your descending scale matches the ascending one.
Open Sonata Facile K. 545 · 1st movement in Pianovera: the notes fall toward an 88-key virtual piano keyboard, each hand gets its color, and Wait mode is there if you're starting out. On a PC, it's falling notes piano software for Windows, with video export up to 4K.
Free, with no time limit and no ads: 30 pieces (10 in full, 20 in a simplified version), the first 10 lessons and 10 minutes of 3D hands (then 15 seconds per piece). Premium opens all 651 pieces.
Download the first movement of the Sonata Facile MIDI and sheet music
The work itself is in the public domain. This MIDI engraving comes from the Mutopia Project, typeset by Alejandro Sierra, under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license (free reuse with attribution, commercial included).
About this piece
Is the first movement of the Sonata Facile hard to play on piano?
We rate it intermediate: 1288 notes over 2:12, spanning C2 to F6. The first thing to work on: alberti bass: even, discreet, no thumb accent.
Where can I get the sheet music for the first movement of the Sonata Facile?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (139 KB), engraved by the Mutopia Project from the same source as the MIDI file, CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. View it, print it, keep it.
Is the first movement of the Sonata Facile MIDI file really free?
Yes. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1788) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license: free to use, commercially included, with credit to Alejandro Sierra.
