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The Piano Sonata No. 2 in G major by Paul Hindemith was composed in 1936. A typical performance lasts 13 minutes. [ 1 ] The shortest of his three piano sonatas, Hindemith thought of this sonata as a sonatina , and its writing is considered to be accessible even to amateurs.
Sonata in B-flat for Keyboard and Violin, K. 31 (1766) Sonata in D for Keyboard and Violin, K. 630 (1766, doubtful) Mature violin sonatas (1778–88)
The beginning of the Concord Sonata, first edition. The sonata's four movements represent figures associated with transcendentalism.In the introduction to his Essays Before a Sonata [13] [14] (published immediately before the Concord Sonata, and serving as what Henry and Sidney Cowell called "an elaborate kind of program note (124 pages long)" [15]), Ives said the work was his "impression of ...
The second movement of the sonata is an adagio in F minor. It is the only piano sonata by Mozart with a slow movement in a minor key. While not marked as such, the movement is a siciliana, [2] which Mozart would later revisit in the slow movement of his A major piano concerto (K.488). The mood of this movement is mournful and tragic, with the ...
The Piano Sonata No. 2 was written during a time where the sonata lost its overpowering dominance. While the sonatas of Beethoven and Mozart comprised a considerable portion of their compositional output, this is not true of the next generation of composers: Franz Liszt only wrote one sonata among his dozens of instrumental compositions, Robert Schumann seven (eight if including the Fantasie ...
This movement, again in sonata-allegro form, further utilizes cyclic unity by using themes from the first movement. [1] The transition to the second theme area of the exposition introduces a new theme (in D major), unusual in sonata-allegro form. [1] The development section, as in the first movement, is also split into three sub-sections. [2]
Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, (Op. 19, also titled Sonata-Fantasy) took five years for him to write. It was finally published in 1898, at the urging of his publisher. The piece is in two movements, with a style combining Chopin-like Romanticism with an impressionistic touch. The piece is widely appreciated and is one of ...
The Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 was composed by Robert Schumann from 1830 to 1834. [1] [a] It was one of his three full-length attempts at the sonata genre, the other completed ones being the Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor (Op. 11) and the Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor (Op. 14). Because it was published only in 1839, three years ...