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Piano Sonata No. 1 (Myaskovsky)
Piano Sonata No. 1, the default title for a composer's first (or only) piano sonata, may refer to: * Piano Sonata (Barber), Op. 26, by Samuel Barber * Piano Sonata (Barraqué), by Jean Barraqué * Piano Sonata (Bartók), Sz. 80, by Béla Bartók * Piano Sonata No. 1 (Beethoven), Op. 2, No. 1, by Ludwig van Beethoven * Piano Sonata (Berg), Op. 1, by Alban Berg * Piano Sonata (Bernstein), by Leonard Bernstein * Piano Sonata No. 1 (Boulez), 1946, by Pierre Boulez * Piano Sonata No. 1 (Brahms), Op. 1, by Johannes Brahms * Piano Sonata No. 1 (Chopin), Op. 4, by Frédéric Chopin * Piano Sonata (Dukas), by Paul Dukas * Piano Sonata (Dutilleux), by Henri Dutilleux * Piano Sonata No. 1 (Enescu), Op. 24, by George Enescu * Piano Sonata (Grieg), Op. 7, by Edvard Grieg * Piano Sonata No. 1 (Hindemith), by Paul Hindemith * Piano Sonata in B minor (Liszt), S. 178, by Franz Liszt * Piano Sonata (Martinů), H. 350, by Bohuslav Martinů * Piano Sonata No. 1 (Mozart), K. 279, by Wolfgang Amadeus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata
A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement ( Scarlatti, Liszt, Scriabin, Medtner, Berg), others with two movements (Haydn, Beethoven), some contain five (Brahms' Third Piano Sonata) or even more movements. The first movement is generally composed in sonata form. The Baroque keyboard sonata In the Baroque era, the use of the term "sonata" generally referred to either the sonata da chiesa (church sonata) or sonata da camera (chamber sonata), both of which were sonatas for various instruments (usually one or more violins plus basso continuo). The keyboard sonata was relatively neglected by most composers. The sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti (of which there are over 500) were the hallmark of the Baroque keyboard sonata, though they were, for the most part, unpublished during Scarlatti's lifetime. The majority of these sonatas are in one-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata (Barber)
The Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26 was written by Samuel Barber in 1949 for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the League of Composers. Commissioned by Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers, it was first performed by Vladimir Horowitz and has remained a popular concert staple since.Hans Tischler, "Barber's Piano Sonata Op. 26", ''Music & Letters'' 33, no. 4 (October 1952): 352–54. http://ml.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/XXXIII/4/352 History In 1950, the League of Composers, a society aimed at promoting new American works, met for the twenty-fifth anniversary of its inception. Samuel Barber set to work writing a piano sonata for the occasion, and requested Vladimir Horowitz to perform it. His demands were met, and the work was received with overwhelming critical acclaim. Funding for the League of Composers commission was donated by Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers. Horowitz premiered the Sonata in Havana, Cuba, on December 9, 1949, followed by performances in Cleveland and Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata (Barraqué)
The Piano Sonata by Jean Barraqué, composed between 1950 and 1952, is a significant serial composition, from the period of avant-garde composition in France shortly after World War II. It is a large piece, lasting around forty minutes according to the score, but ranging from 30 to 50 minutes in recordings attended by the composer. It is in a single movement divided into two connected sections, roughly equal in length. Influences The densely dissonant polyphonic texture of the work resembles the Second Piano Sonata of Pierre Boulez, a work Barraqué knew well. In performance, however, the overall impact is quite different from anything of Boulez, and has often been claimed (e.g. by ), to be akin in spirit to the late sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven. In its turn, Barraqué's Sonata spurred his pupil Bill Hopkins to compose his cycle of ''Etudes en série'' (1965–1972, 1997), which develops some of Barraqué's serial techniques, and its scale, but has its own musical characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata (Bartók)
The Piano Sonata, BB 88, Sz. 80, is a piano sonata by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in June 1926. 1926 is known to musicologists as Bartók's "piano year", when he underwent a creative shift in part from Beethovenian intensity to a more Bachian craftsmanship.Hannah Durham, Texas Performing Arts, "About the Program", Feb. 27, 2013 The work is in three movements, with the following tempo indications: It is tonal but highly dissonant (and has no key signature), using the piano in a percussive fashion with erratic time signatures. Underneath clusters of repeated notes, the melody is folklike. Each movement has a classical structure overall, in character with Bartók's frequent use of classical forms as vehicles for his most advanced thinking. Musicologist Halsey Stevens finds in the work early forms of many stylistic traits that became more fully developed in Bartók's "golden age", 1934–1940. Bartók wrote ''Dittának, Budapesten, 1926, jun.'' at the end of the score, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata No
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Description The word "piano" is a shortened form of ''pianoforte'', the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from ''clavicembalo col piano e forte'' (key cimbalom with quiet and loud)Pollens (1995, 238) and ''fortepiano''. The Italian musical terms ''piano'' and ''forte'' indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on the keys: the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata (Berg)
Alban Berg's Piano Sonata (german: Klaviersonate), Op. 1, was published in 1910, but the exact date of composition is unknown; sources suggest that it was written in 1909. The Sonata is Berg's only piano work to which he gave an opus number. History Berg first studied under Arnold Schoenberg in the autumn of 1904, taking lessons in harmony and counterpoint. Later, in autumn 1907, he returned to begin studies in composition, which ended with the study of sonata movements. Several draft sketches of sonata movements date from this period and it is thought that Op. 1 followed from these drafts. The exact date of composition is unknown; although the second reissue of the score bears the date 1908, sources suggest that the Sonata was not composed until the spring or summer of 1909 (Scheideler, 2006). The premiere of the Piano Sonata, Op. 1 was given in Vienna on 24 April 1911 by Etta Werndorff. Other works by Berg and Anton Webern were also played at that concert. Pianist Léo-Pol Morin n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata (Bernstein)
The Piano Sonata, originally entitled ''Sonata for the Piano'', is the only piano sonata by American composer Leonard Bernstein. An early work by the composer, it was finished in 1938. Background The Piano Sonata is a juvenilia work composed by Bernstein while he was still a student at Harvard University. The composition process is likely to have started as early as 1936, as Bernstein was able to play it in part at a reception for Dimitri Mitropoulos in January 1937. Mitropoulos is said to have been very impressed by the piece, as he told Bernstein: "You have everything to make you great; it is up to you only to fulfil your mission." The piece was completed and premiered by Bernstein himself in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1938. It remained unpublished until many decades later, in 1979, when it was published by Amberson Holdings, the Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company, and Boosey & Hawkes. Even though the sonata was completed in the late 30s, it was dedicated to fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata (Dukas)
The Piano Sonata in E-flat minor is a musical work composed by Paul Dukas between 1899 and 1900, and published in 1901. Structure # Modérément vif (expressif et marqué) (E-flat minor) # Calme – un peu lent – très soutenu (A-flat major) # Vivement – avec légèreté (B minor) # Très lent (E-flat minor → E-flat major) Reception In the first decade of the 20th century, following the immense success of his orchestral work ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'', Dukas completed two complex and technically demanding large-scale works for solo piano: the Piano Sonata, dedicated to Saint-Saëns, and ''Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau'' (1902). In Dukas's piano works critics have discerned the influence of Beethoven, or, "Beethoven as he was interpreted to the French mind by César Franck". Both works were premiered by Édouard Risler, a celebrated pianist of the era.Lockspeiser, p. 90 In an analysis of the work in ''The Musical Quarterly'' in 1928, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata (Dutilleux)
Henri Dutilleux's Piano Sonata (1947–1948) was his only piano sonata. It is dedicated to and premiered by his wife Geneviève Joy on 30 April 1948.Fantapié, Henri-Claude (2014), ''Henri Dutilleux Edition'', -CD Set (Deutsche Grammophon), liner notes. The Piano Sonata has since become one of the most acclaimed post-World War II works in the genre Tall Poppies TP212 (2010), via Presto Music, "... the Dutilleux Sonata is one of the best piano works from the 20th century..." and has been championed by major pianists such as , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata (Grieg)
Edvard Grieg's Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7 was written in 1865 when he was 22 years old. The sonata was published a year later and revised in 1887. The work was Grieg's only piano sonata and it was dedicated to the Danish composer Niels Gade. The sonata has four movements with the following tempo markings: # Allegro moderato # Andante molto # Alla Menuetto, ma poco più lento # Finale: Molto allegro A typical performance lasts around 20 minutes. In the first movement Grieg used a technique probably most famously used by Bach and Shostakovich: his own name, more precisely his initials E-H-G (H being the German name for note B), begins the melody in the first two bars, which is reiterated in octaves and even echoed by the left hand in bars 14 and 15. He used the same method in his two compositions of the Lyric Pieces: "Gade", Op. 57, No. 2 and "Secret", Op. 57, No. 4, using the name of his admired colleague Gade. In a 1944 letter to Ella Grainger, Percy Grainger mentioned plann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata In B Minor (Liszt)
The Piano Sonata in B minor (german: Klaviersonate h-moll), S.178, is a piano sonata by Franz Liszt. It was completed in 1853 and published in 1854 with a dedication to Robert Schumann. History Liszt noted on the sonata's manuscript that it was completed on 2 February 1853,Walker (1989), p. 150 but he had composed an earlier version by 1849. At this point in his life, Liszt's career as a traveling virtuoso had almost entirely subsided, as he had been influenced towards leading the life of a composer rather than a performer by Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein almost five years earlier.Walker, Alan et al. "Liszt, Franz.Oxford Music Online; Grove Music Online Liszt's life was established in Weimar and he was living a comfortable lifestyle, composing, and occasionally performing, entirely by choice rather than necessity. The Sonata was dedicated to Robert Schumann, in return for Schumann's dedication of his Fantasie in C major, Op.17 (published 1839) to Liszt.Walker (1989), p. 156 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Sonata (Martinů)
Bohuslav Martinů's Piano Sonata, H. 350 was written in Nice in the last months of 1954 for Rudolf Serkin, who premiered it in Düsseldorf in 1957 coupled with Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata No. 29. The first performance in the Eastern Bloc took place in Brno later that year, by Eliška Nováková. Framed by the Symphony No. 6 and the , it is Martinů's largest solo piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ... work and a significant work of his late period, characterized by formal freedom, dramatic tension, harsh dissonant harmonies and changing rhythms.François R. de Tranchefort et al., Guide de la musique de piano et de clavecin. Page 486 It consists of three movements: # Poco allegro # Moderato # Adagio - Poco allegro See also * List of compositions by Bohusla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
