Expert: Jim Frimmer - 2/25/2008

Question
This is pretty embarrassing, since I actually performed this piece.  I can't remember the title OR composer, but I believe it was from around the era of Mozart.  It's in the key of Eb, 3/4 meter.  The melody is in the RH, with LH simply "replying" with parts of Eb chords in the opening line, lining up with the RH's quarter note and quarter rest.  Later in the piece, the RH actually plays the same melody at the bass end of the piano, and crosses over to do such.  Due to the flats, I'll type the opening line in solfege... lower case for sixteenth's, and Cap's for quarters, and '-' for quarter rests.  Barlines are represented with a space.  Here it is:
(starting at G below middle C & going up grad., from G to Bb, and coming in on beat 3): msfl S-
(coming down from the octave higher mi to do): mdtr D(8th rest)
Now lower cases are 8th notes: dmsSfmrd t.rF  (t.r is dotted eighth/sixteenth pattern)  
Well, I wish I had a way to just record a snippit of it and you'd have it in a snap, but this is VERY hard to type out and make a way that you can dicipher.  So sorry.  Music just doesn't type on the computer well.  I could type out some of it on my musicprint program and probably e-mail it to you, if I had that.  Any help would be appreciated, but I know I'm giving you very little to go on.  Thanks!


Answer
Leigh,
 I think you may be thinking of the Haydn Sonata in E flat Major, Hoboken number 49, first movement.  You didn't give me a lot of information, but the opening of this sonata is similar to what you describe and there is hand crossing at the end of the exposition.

Let me know if this is the correct piece.  Most likely there is a performance of this piece on YouTube.  Just google Sonata in E flat Major, Hoboken 49 and type in YouTube and I bet you'll find a performance of this piece.