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The Pianoforte Sonata

The Pianoforte Sonata

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Number of Chapters: 12

Length: 06 hours and 26 minutes

Language: English

John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at the time to be the earliest keyboard sonata, up the present day. Along the way, works by Emanuel Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt and others are looked at, along with many musical extracts. - Summary by Jordan

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Preface (Jordan Watts)
Introductory (Jordan Watts)
Johann Kuhnau (Jordan Watts)
Bernardo Pasquini: A Contemporary of J. Kuhnau (Jordan Watts)
Emanuel Bach and some of his Contemporaries (Jordan Watts)
Haydn and Mozart (Jordan Watts)
Predecessors of Beethoven (Jordan Watts)
Ludwig van Beethoven (Jordan Watts)
Two Contemporaries of Beethoven (Jordan Watts)
Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, and Liszt (Jordan Watts)
The Sonata in England (Jordan Watts)
Modern Sonatas, Duet Sonatas, Sonatinas, etc. (Jordan Watts)
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