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Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 14, is a sonata for solo piano, written in 1912.First published by P. Jurgenson in 1913, it was premiered on 5 February 1914 in Moscow with the composer performing.
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In his notes accompanying the full set of recordings of Prokofiev's sonatas by Boris Berman, David Fanning states the following: . Whether the restrained, even brooding quality of much of the Fourth Sonata relates in any direct way to Schmidthof's death is uncertain, but it is certainly striking that the first two movements both start gloomily in the piano's low register.
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 is a sonata for solo piano, the first of the "War Sonatas". It was composed in 1940 and first performed on 8 April of that year in Moscow, with the composer at the piano.
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major, Op. 38, was written at Ettal near Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps during the composer's stay there in 1923. He would revise it thirty years later, at the end of his life, but not drastically, as his Opus 135 , and it is this version that is usually played.
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 8 in B ♭ major, Op. 84 is a sonata for solo piano, the third and longest of the three "war sonatas", with performances typically lasting around 30 minutes. He completed it in 1944 and dedicated it to his partner Mira Mendelson , who later became his second wife. [ 1 ]
Regarding the Paris premiere, Prokofiev further adds: [My] Sonata was presented at the official opening of Triton, which chanced to coincide with the premiere of my ballet On the Dnieper. Fortunately the ballet began half an hour after the end of the concert, and so immediately after the Sonata we dashed over to the Grand Opéra – musicians ...
The sonata is the shortest of his piano sonatas, being in a single movement in sonata form and lasting approximately 7–8 minutes, but it is one of the most technically demanding pieces Prokofiev has ever written for the piano. The piece opens with a blasting E major chord for the entire first and second bars and then goes into a toccata-like ...