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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 ...
Although various composers in the 17th century had written keyboard pieces which they entitled "Sonata", it was only in the classical era, when the piano displaced the earlier harpsichord and sonata form rose to prominence as a principle of musical composition, that the term "piano sonata" acquired a definite meaning and a characteristic form.
Many classical compositions belong to a numbered series of works of a similar type by the same composer. For example, Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 10 violin sonatas, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 16 string quartets, 7 piano trios and other works, all of which are numbered sequentially within their genres and generally referred to by their sequence numbers, keys and opus numbers.
'F-A-E' Sonata; Frédéric Chopin. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B ♭ minor; Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor; Paul Dukas. Piano Sonata in E-flat minor (1900) George Enescu. Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano in D major, Op. 2 (1897) Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano in F minor, Op. 6 (1899) Edvard Grieg. Three sonatas for Violin and Piano; Franz Liszt
Sonata in B flat major, K. 358/186c (1773–74) Sonata in D major, K. 381/123a (1773–74) Fugue in G minor, K. 401/375e (1773) Sonata in F major, K. 497 (1786) Andante and Variations in G major, K. 501 (1786) Sonata in C major, K. 521 (1787) Lior Navok (1971) At the Edge of a Spiral (2004) Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) Sonata for piano four ...
This concerto is one single, long movement, divided into six sections that are connected by transformations of several themes: . Adagio sostenuto assai The key musical idea of this concerto is first heard in the first clarinet, accompanied by no more than four other woodwinds: a sequence of two chords—an A major chord with a C ♯ on top, then a dominant seventh on F ♮.
Frédéric Chopin composed three piano sonatas, two of which were published in his lifetime, one posthumously. They are considered to be among Chopin's most difficult piano compositions both musically and technically. They cover a period of time from 1828 to 1844, reflecting Chopin's style changes.
D-flat major was used as the key for the slow movements of Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonata Hob XVI:46 in A-flat major, and Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata. Chopin's Minute Waltz from Op. 64 is in D-flat major. A part of the trio of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" is written in D-flat major.