Attributive Indications of Characters and Protagonists of Comic Operas in the Thematicism of Mozart’s Clavier Sonatas

Many instrumental works by 17th and 18th century composers are generated, as it is well known, on the principle of the atricalization of the plots which demonstrates the characters and protagonists of opera works, various “migrating plotlines,” dramatic and comic situations generated in theatrical and opera works. In Mozart’s clavier sonatas it frequently becomes possible to discern the musical manifestation of typical indications of characteristic images, as well as the migrating comic opera attributes connected with them. This type of plotline organization of the piano musical text may be labeled as theatrical. The article is aimed at analyzing the signs of migrating operatic characters and protagonists, stage settings, dialogues and polylogues, and at times entire theatrical acts, consisting of several alternating scenes demonstrating the appearance of the semantic situation of “a text within a text.” Within the scope of a clavier composition this manifests itself in the form of a theatrical dialogue containing signs of verbal actions and motional plastic arts.