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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.
The Cello Sonata No. 2 in C major, Op. 26, No. 2, is a sonata for cello and piano by the Romanian composer George Enescu, written in 1935. A performance lasts about ...
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 ...
Violin Sonata No. 2 may refer to: Violin Sonata No. 2 (Beethoven) Violin Sonata No. 2 (Brahms) Violin Sonata No. 2 (Enescu) Violin Sonata No. 2 (Fauré) Violin Sonata No. 2 (Grieg) Violin Sonata No. 2 (Hill) Violin Sonata No. 2 (Hindemith) Violin Sonata No. 2 by Charles Ives; Violin Sonata No. 2 (Mozart) Violin Sonata No. 2 (Prokofiev) Violin ...
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 ...
The music begins in the piano, and the cello enters on a playful counter-melody in measure twelve, [2] [8] and the two instruments pass arpeggiated and scalar figures back and forth. [4] A more melodic section in D major begins in measure 33, and the fast-paced music passes through A major and E major before returning to G. [2]
In relation to the First Sonata, the Second Piano Sonata, written in 1947–48, [20] marked a major step forward in terms of both expressivity and sophistication of compositional technique. (This gap can, in part, be explained by the fact that, in the interim, Boulez wrote a piece, later lost, titled Symphonie concertante , that he considered ...
The Pianist: Music from the Motion Picture is the original soundtrack, on the Sony Classical label, of the 2002 film The Pianist starring Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, and Frank Finlay.