Chopin & Liszt: Sonatas
Sonata Forms background
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Listening:
Chopin: Sonata No.2 in B-Flat Minor, Op.35 (1837)
I Grave—doppio movimento
II Scherzo
III Marche funebre
IV Presto
Block
Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor (1853)
Argerich
Reading:
R.M. Longyear “The Text of Liszt’s B Minor Sonata“, The Musical Quarterly, Jul., 1974, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Jul., 1974), pp. 435-450.
Charles Rosen “The First Movement of Chopin’s Sonata in B♭ Minor, Op. 35,” 19th-Century Music, Summer, 1990, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Summer, 1990), pp. 60-66
Anatole Leikin: “Repeat with Caution: A Dilemma of the First Movement of Chopin’s Sonata op. 35,” The Musical Quarterly, Autumn, 2001, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 568-582
Brahms (1833–1897)
Listening:
Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5 (1853) (Op. 5 HANDOUT)
Allegro maestoso
Andante espressivo
Scherzo: Allegro energico
Intermezzo: Andante molto
Finale: Allegro moderato ma rubato
Rubinstein
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24(1861)
Cliburn
Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 no. 2 (1879)
Ballade in G minor, Op. 118 no. 3 (1893)
Intermezzo in E-flat minor, Op. 118 no. 6 (1893)
Intermezzo in B minor, Op. 119 no. 1 (1893)
Lupu
Reading:
J. Peter Burkholder, “Brahms and Twentieth-Century Classical Music.” 19th-Century Music, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Summer, 1984), pp. 75-83
David Cartledge 