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The piano sonata, from Mozart to Prokofiev
Twelve piano sonatas from Mozart and Haydn to Prokofiev's war sonata of 1942.
Mozart → Haydn → Beethoven → Schubert → Chopin → Liszt → Berg → Bartók → Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
This guide follows Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 (1822) in two parts: Maestoso (sonata form) and Arietta: Adagio molto, semplice e cantabile (theme and variations).
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A slow, majestic of dotted, leaping diminished-seventh chords barely lets C minor settle. The is partly fugal in , and it ends with a on a low G before the fast begins. The first enters with the and a closes the ; the is in A-flat major, not the expected E-flat. The works the in layered voices, with octaves, trills and chords. Then the begins, and the fades into C major, the of the .
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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