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Music Monday | From Salon to Stage: The Piece That Started It All | July 13, 2026
- Jul 13
- 1 min read
On November 23, 1781, in a Viennese drawing room, a twenty-five-year-old Mozart sat down at one of two pianos and played a piece he had written for that evening. His partner was his student Josepha von Auernhammer. The piece was the Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448, the most important work in the history of the genre.
Before that night, two-piano music barely existed. The second instrument changed everything: each pianist could now command the full keyboard, tossing melodies back and forth, one imitating an orchestra while the other sang. Mozart invented gestures that Brahms, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, and generations after them would build upon, right through to the jazz, Latin, and genre-defying fusions alive on concert stages today.
That lineage, from Mozart’s drawing-room discovery to the present, is exactly what Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion exists to honor. Here are the Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen performing the piece that started it all.
