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Most violinists use their left hand for intricate fingerwork, so why is the right hand used for more complex key pressing on the piano? (continued)
Jo Murphy
Waikanae, New Zealand
The hand used for intricate key pressings on the piano depends on which composer’s piece is being played. Mozart’s compositions are renowned for having a strong and extremely expressive left hand. You can observe this left-hand facility in the way he often composed a lively, intricate right-hand phrasing and echoed it by transferring the dominant phrase to the left hand in repetition, with the right as continuo.
So, perhaps Mozart…
