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Title: The Pianoforte Sonata
Its Origin and Development
Author: J.S. Shedlock
Release Date: November 16, 2005 [EBook #17074]
Language: English
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THE
PIANOFORTE SONATA
ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
BY
J.S. SHEDLOCK, B.A.
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CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
I. INTRODUCTORY 1
II. JOHANN KUHNAU 38
III. BERNARDO PASQUINI: A CONTEMPORARY OF J. KUHNAU 71
IV. EMANUEL BACH AND SOME OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES 82
V. HAYDN AND MOZART 111
VI. PREDECESSORS OF BEETHOVEN 130
VII. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 160
VIII. TWO CONTEMPORARIES OF BEETHOVEN 192
IX. SCHUMANN, CHOPIN, BRAHMS, AND LISZT 207
X. THE SONATA IN ENGLAND 221
XI. MODERN SONATAS, DUET SONATAS, SONATINAS, ETC. 235
INDEX 241
PREFACE
This little volume is entitled "The Pianoforte Sonata: its Origin and
Development." Some of the early sonatas mentioned in it were, however,
written for instruments of the jack or tangent kind. Even Beethoven's
sonatas up to Op. 27, inclusive, were published for "Clavicembalo o
Pianoforte." The Germans have the convenient generic term "Clavier,"
which includes the old and the new instruments with hammer action;
hence, they speak of a _Clavier Sonate_ written, say, by Kuhnau, in
the seventeenth, or of one by Brahms in the nineteenth, century
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