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A piano sonata is a sonata written for unaccompanied piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements
Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession....
, although occasionally there are just one or two movements. The first movement is usually composed in sonata form
Sonata form

Sonata form is a musical form that has been used widely since the early Classical music era. While it is typically used in the first Movement of multimovement pieces, it is sometimes employed in subsequent movements as well....
.

The Baroque keyboard sonata
In the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 era, the use of the term "sonata" generally referred to either the sonata da chiesa
Sonata da chiesa

Sonata da chiesa is an instrumental composition dating from the Baroque period, generally consisting of four movements. More than one melody was often used, and the movements were ordered slow–fast–slow–fast with respect to tempo....
 (church sonata) or sonata da camera
Sonata da camera

Sonata da camera is Italian language for "chamber sonata".Sonata da camera is a type of trio sonata intended for secular performance. It is an instrumental work of the Baroque period, in three or more stylized dance movements , scored for one or more melody instruments and basso continuo....
 (chamber sonata), both of which were sonatas for various instruments (usually one or more violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
s plus basso continuo).






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A piano sonata is a sonata written for unaccompanied piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements
Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession....
, although occasionally there are just one or two movements. The first movement is usually composed in sonata form
Sonata form

Sonata form is a musical form that has been used widely since the early Classical music era. While it is typically used in the first Movement of multimovement pieces, it is sometimes employed in subsequent movements as well....
.

The Baroque keyboard sonata


In the Baroque
Baroque music

Baroque music describes a period or style of European classical music approximately extending from Dates of classical music eras. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance music and was followed by the Classical music era....
 era, the use of the term "sonata" generally referred to either the sonata da chiesa
Sonata da chiesa

Sonata da chiesa is an instrumental composition dating from the Baroque period, generally consisting of four movements. More than one melody was often used, and the movements were ordered slow–fast–slow–fast with respect to tempo....
 (church sonata) or sonata da camera
Sonata da camera

Sonata da camera is Italian language for "chamber sonata".Sonata da camera is a type of trio sonata intended for secular performance. It is an instrumental work of the Baroque period, in three or more stylized dance movements , scored for one or more melody instruments and basso continuo....
 (chamber sonata), both of which were sonatas for various instruments (usually one or more violin
Violin

The violin is a Bow string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
s plus basso continuo). The keyboard sonata was relatively neglected by most composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
s.

The sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti , son of the composer Alessandro Scarlatti, was an Italy composer who spent much of his life in Spain and Portugal....
 (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-movement binary form
Binary form

Binary form is a way of structuring a piece of music in two related sections, both of which are usually repeated. Binary is also a structure used to choreograph dance....
, both sections being in the same tempo
Tempo

In musical terminology, 'tempo' is the speed or pace of a given musical piece. It is an extremely crucial element of composition, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece....
 and utilizing the same thematic material. These sonatas are prized for both their technical difficulty and their musical and formal ingenuity. The influence of Spanish folk music is evident in Scarlatti's sonatas.

Other composers of keyboard sonatas (which were primarily written in two or three movements) include Marcello
Benedetto Marcello

Benedetto Marcello was an Italy composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher....
, Giustini
Lodovico Giustini

Lodovico Giustini was an Italy composer and keyboard player of the late Baroque music and early Classical music era eras. He was the first composer ever to write music for the piano....
, Durante
Francesco Durante

Francesco Durante was an Italy composer.He was born at Frattamaggiore, in the Two Sicilies, and at an early age he entered the Music Conservatories of Naples, in Naples, where he received lessons from Gaetano Greco....
 and Platti.

Piano sonatas in the Classical era

Although various composers in the 17th century had written Piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
 pieces which they entitled "Sonata", it was only in the classical era, when the piano displaced the earlier harpsichord
Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when each Key is pressed....
 and sonata form rose to prominence as a principle of music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
al composition, that the term "piano sonata" acquired a definite meaning and a characteristic form.

All three of the well-known Classical era composers, Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
, and Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
, wrote many piano sonatas, as did the much younger Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
. The 32 sonatas of Beethoven, including the well-known Pathétique Sonata and the Moonlight Sonata
Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)

The Piano sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Opus number 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is popularly known as the "Moonlight" Sonata ....
, are often considered the pinnacle
Pinnacle

A pinnacle is an architecture ornament originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations....
 of piano sonata composition.

Piano sonatas in the Romantic era

As the Romantic
Romantic music

In music, romanticism is a term, often considered misleading, and concept derived from literature traditionally defined by attributes including, "interest in nature, medieval chivalry, mysticism, [and] remoteness [ Social alienation and Solitude]"....
 era progressed after Beethoven and Schubert, piano sonatas continued to be composed, but in lesser numbers as the form took on a somewhat academic tinge and competed with shorter genres more compatible with Romantic compositional style. Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
's comprehensive "three-movements-in-one" Sonata in B minor
Piano Sonata (Liszt)

The Piano Sonata in B minor , List of compositions by Franz Liszt , is a musical composition for solo piano by Franz Liszt....
 draws on the concept of thematic transformation first introduced by Schubert
Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
 in his Wanderer Fantasie of 1822 and Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op.27, no.2 (Moonlight)
Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)

The Piano sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Opus number 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is popularly known as the "Moonlight" Sonata ....
. Piano sonatas have been written throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and up to the present day. Though different in their form, they maintain the same structure as the original sonatas of the classical period.

Noted piano sonatas


Classical

  • Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a Germany musician and composer, the second of five sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He was one of the founders of the Classical music era style, composing in the Galante music and Classical periods....
    • Württemberg Sonata no. 1 in A minor, H. 30, Wq. 49/1
    • 'Prussian' Sonata no. 4 in C minor, Wq. 48/4


  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
    • Piano Sonata no. 8 in A minor, K 310
      Piano Sonata No. 8 (Mozart)

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano_sonata No. 8 in A_minor, K?chel-Verzeichnis 310 is a Sonata_%28music%29 in three movement :#Tempo#Italian tempo markings...
    • Piano Sonata no. 11 in A Major, K 331
      Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart)

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano_Sonata No. 11 in A major, K?chel-Verzeichnis 331 is a sonata in three movement s:#Andante grazioso - a theme with six variation form...
    • Piano Sonata no. 13 in B-flat major K 333
      Piano Sonata No. 13 (Mozart)

      The Piano Sonata in B-flat major, K?chel-Verzeichnis 333 , was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Linz at the end of 1783....
    • Piano Sonata no. 14 in C minor, K 475
      Piano Sonata No. 14 (Mozart)

      The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K?chel-Verzeichnis 457, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed and completed in 1784, with the official date of completion recorded as October 14th, 1784 in Mozart?s private catalogue of works....
    • Piano Sonata no. 16 in C Major, K 545
      Piano Sonata No. 16 (Mozart)

      The Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is possibly his most famous piano sonata. It was described by Mozart himself in his own thematic catalogue as "for beginners," and it is sometimes known by the nickname Sonata facile or Sonata semplice....


  • Haydn, Franz Joseph
    Joseph Haydn

    Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
    • Piano Sonata no. 59 in E Flat Major, Hob. XVI: 49
    • Piano Sonata no. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI: 50
    • Piano Sonata no. 61 in D Major, Hob. XVI: 51
    • Piano Sonata no. 62 in E Flat Major, Hob. XVI: 52


  • Beethoven, Ludwig Van
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    • Piano Sonata no. 8 in C minor, op. 13 "Pathétique"
      Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)

      Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Path?tique, was written in 1798 when the composer was 28 years old and published in 1799....
    • Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op.27/2 "Moonlight"
      Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)

      The Piano sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Opus number 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is popularly known as the "Moonlight" Sonata ....
    • Piano Sonata no. 15 in D Major, op. 28 "Pastoral"
      Piano Sonata No. 15 (Beethoven)

      Piano Sonata No. 15, Op. 28, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was named Pastoral or Pastorale by Beethoven's publisher at the time, A....
    • Piano Sonata no. 17 in D minor, op. 31/2 "Tempest"
      Piano Sonata No. 17 (Beethoven)

      The Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 No. 2, was composed in 1801/02 by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is usually referred to as "The Tempest" , but this title was not given by him, or indeed referred to as such during his lifetime; instead, it comes from a claim by his associate Anton Schindler that the sonata was inspired by the The Tempe...
    • Piano Sonata no. 21 in C Major op. 53 "Waldstein"
      Piano Sonata No. 21 (Beethoven)

      The Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op.53, nicknamed Waldstein, is considered to be one of Ludwig van Beethoven's greatest Piano sonata, as well as one of the three particularly notable sonatas of his Ludwig van Beethoven#The three periods ....
    • Piano Sonata no. 23 in F minor, op. 57 "Appasionata"
      Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)

      Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, opus number, colloquially known as the Appassionata, is considered one of the three great piano sonatas of his middle period ....


Romantic


  • Chopin, Frédéric
    Frédéric Chopin

    Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
    • Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35, "Funeral March"
    • Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor, op. 58
      Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor (Chopin)

      Fr?d?ric Chopin composed his Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Opus number 58 in 1844 and dedicated it to Countess Emilie de Perthuis. His last sonata for piano solo, it has been suggested that this was his attempt to address the criticisms of his earlier Piano Sonata No....


  • Dukas, Paul
    Paul Dukas

    Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer and teacher of European classical music....
    • Piano Sonata in E-flat minor


  • Grieg, Edvard
    Edvard Grieg

    Edvard Grieg was a Norway composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto , for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's Play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces....
    • Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 7
      Piano Sonata (Grieg)

      Edvard Grieg's Piano Sonata in E minor, opus number 7 was written in 1865 when Grieg was only 22 years old. The sonata was published a year later and revised in 1887....


  • Liszt, Franz
    Franz Liszt

    Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
    • Sonata after a Reading of Dante
      Dante Sonata

      Apr?s une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata is a piano sonata in one Movement , completed by Hungary composer Franz Liszt in 1849. It was first published in 1856 as part of the second volume of Ann?es de P?lerinage ....
       (Fantasia Quasi Sonata)
    • Piano Sonata in B minor
      Piano Sonata (Liszt)

      The Piano Sonata in B minor , List of compositions by Franz Liszt , is a musical composition for solo piano by Franz Liszt....


  • MacDowell, Edward
    Edward MacDowell

    Edward Alexander MacDowell was an United States composer and pianist from the Romantic music, best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls"....
    • Sonata Tragica, op. 45
    • Sonata Eroica, op. 50
    • Third Sonata, op. 57
    • Fourth Sonata, op. 59


  • Mendelssohn, Felix
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
    • Piano Sonata no. 1 in E Major, op. 6
    • Piano Sonata no. 2 in G minor, op. 105
    • Piano Sonata no. 3 in B-flat Major, op. 106


  • Rachmaninoff, Sergei
    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conducting. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, the last great representative of Russian late Romantic music in classical music....
    • Piano Sonata no. 2 in B-flat minor, Op.36
      Piano Sonata No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)

      Piano Sonata No. 2, Opus number. 36, is a piano sonata in B-flat minor composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1913. It was later revised with the note, "The new version, revised and reduced by author." It has three movements:...


  • Schubert, Franz
    Franz Schubert

    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
    , (See List of Schubert's works
    List of compositions by Franz Schubert

    Many of Franz Schubert's works are covered in separate Wikipedia articles, for which there are links on this page.A complete list of Schubert's works arranged by "D number" , is available in the following two articles:...
    )
    • Piano Sonata no. 19 in C Minor D
      Otto Erich Deutsch

      Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrians musicology. He is best known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of the works of Franz Schubert, first published in 1951 in English, new edition in 1978 in German....
      .958
    • Piano Sonata no. 20 in A Major D
      Otto Erich Deutsch

      Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrians musicology. He is best known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of the works of Franz Schubert, first published in 1951 in English, new edition in 1978 in German....
      .959
    • Piano Sonata no. 21 in B-flat Major D
      Otto Erich Deutsch

      Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrians musicology. He is best known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of the works of Franz Schubert, first published in 1951 in English, new edition in 1978 in German....
      .960


  • Schumann, Robert
    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic music composers of the 19th century....
    • Piano Sonata no. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 11 "Grosse Sonate"
    • Piano Sonata no. 2 in G minor, op. 22
    • Piano Sonata no. 3 in F minor, op. 14 "Concerto without Orchestra"


  • Weber, Carl Maria von
    Carl Maria von Weber

    Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a Germans composer, conducting, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romanticism school....
    • Piano Sonata no. 1 in C major, op. 24 (J. 138)
    • Piano Sonata no. 2 in A-flat major, op. 39 (J. 199)
    • Piano Sonata no. 3 in D minor, op. 49 (J. 206)
    • Piano Sonata no. 4 in E minor, op. 70 (J. 287)


20th Century (Including Modern)


  • Barber, Samuel
    Samuel Barber

    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
    • Sonata for Piano, Op.26


  • Barraqué, Jean
    Jean Barraqué

    Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqu? was a France composer and writer on music who developed an individual form of serialism which is displayed in a small output of highly complex but passionate works....
    • Piano Sonata (1950–52)
      Piano Sonata (Barraqué)

      The Piano Sonata by Jean Barraqu? is a significant serialism composition from the period of avant-garde composition in France shortly after World War II....


  • Bartók, Béla
    Béla Bartók

    B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
    • Piano Sonata, Sz.80


  • Berg, Alban
    Alban Berg

    Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Gustav Mahler Romantic music with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique....
    • Piano Sonata, Op.1


  • Boulez, Pierre
    Pierre Boulez

    Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music and Conducting....
    • Piano Sonata No. 1
      Piano sonatas (Boulez)

      Pierre Boulez composed three piano sonatas. The First Piano Sonata in 1946, a Second Piano Sonata in 1948, and a Third Piano Sonata was composed in 1955-57 with further elaborations up to at least 1963, though only two of its movements have been published....
    • Piano Sonata No. 2
      Piano sonatas (Boulez)

      Pierre Boulez composed three piano sonatas. The First Piano Sonata in 1946, a Second Piano Sonata in 1948, and a Third Piano Sonata was composed in 1955-57 with further elaborations up to at least 1963, though only two of its movements have been published....
    • Piano Sonata No. 3
      Piano sonatas (Boulez)

      Pierre Boulez composed three piano sonatas. The First Piano Sonata in 1946, a Second Piano Sonata in 1948, and a Third Piano Sonata was composed in 1955-57 with further elaborations up to at least 1963, though only two of its movements have been published....
       (Unfinished: only two of the five movements have been published.)


  • Copland, Aaron
    Aaron Copland

    Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
    • Piano Sonata


  • Dutilleux, Henri
    Henri Dutilleux

    Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own....
    • Sonata for Piano, Op.1


  • Ginastera, Alberto
    Alberto Ginastera

    Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentina composer of European classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers....
    • Piano Sonata No. 1, Op.22


  • Gould, Glenn
    Glenn Gould

    Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, his remarkable technical proficiency, his unorthodox musical philosophy, and his eccentric personality and piano technique....
    • Piano Sonata


  • Hindemith, Paul
    Paul Hindemith

    Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and Conducting....
    • Piano Sonata No. 1 in A Major "Der Main"
    • Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Major
    • Piano Sonata No. 3 in B flat Major


  • Ives, Charles
    Charles Ives

    Charles Edward Ives was an American musical modernism composer. He is widely regarded as one of the first American composers of international significance....
    • Piano Sonata No.2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60
      Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives)

      The Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60 by Charles Ives, commonly known as the Concord Sonata, is one of the composer's best-known and most highly regarded pieces....


  • Janácek, Leoš
    Leoš Janácek

    Leo? Jan?cek , was a Czech people composer, Music theory, Folkloristics, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style....
    • Piano Sonata "1.X.1905"
      1. X. 1905

      1. X. 1905, also known as Leo? Jan?cek's Sonata, is a two-movement piano composition which Leo? Jan?cek composed in 1905. This sonata was originally entitled "From the Street"....


  • Liebermann, Lowell
    Lowell Liebermann

    'Lowell Liebermann' is an American composer, pianist and Conducting.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at the Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op....
    • Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 1
    • Piano Sonata No.2 ("Sonata Notturna") Op.10 (1983)
    • Piano Sonata No.3 Op.82 (2002)


  • Ornstein, Leo
    Leo Ornstein

    Leo Ornstein , was a leading American Experimental music composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause c?l?bre on both sides of the Atlantic....
    • Piano Sonata No. 4
    • Piano Sonata No. 8


  • Prokofiev, Sergei
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
    • Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op.28 ("From Old Notebooks")
    • Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op.82 ("War Sonata 1")
    • Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Major, Op.83 ("War Sonata 2/Stalingrad")
    • Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat Major, Op.84 ("War Sonata 3")


  • Rzewski, Frederic
    Frederic Rzewski

    Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an United States composer and virtuoso pianist....
    • Sonata for Solo Piano


  • Scriabin, Alexander
    Alexander Scriabin

    Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a highly lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Chopin....
    • Piano Sonata No. 5
      Sonata No. 5 (Scriabin)

      The fifth piano sonata, Op. 53 written by Alexander Scriabin in 1907 marks the end of his Romantic music period and the beginning of his atonal period....
    • Piano Sonata No. 7 "White Mass"
      Sonata No. 7 (Scriabin)

      The seventh piano sonata written by Alexander Scriabin in 1911 is entitled "White Mass". The piece is highly chromatic scale and almost atonality like Scriabin's other late works....
    • Piano Sonata No. 9 "Black Mass"
      Sonata No. 9 (Scriabin)

      The Piano Sonata No. 9, opus number, commonly known as the Black Mass Sonata, is one of the late piano sonatas composed by Alexander Scriabin....


  • Shostakovich, Dmitri
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
    • Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, Op. 61


  • Stravinsky, Igor
    Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
    • Sonata for Piano


See also

  • Piano
    Piano

    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
  • Bassoon sonata
    Bassoon sonata

    A bassoon sonata is a sonata for bassoon, often with piano accompaniment. Sonatas written for bassoon were relatively uncommon until the second half of the twentieth century....
  • Cello sonata
    Cello sonata

    A cello sonata usually denotes a sonata written for cello and piano, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello. The most famous Romantic music cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven....
  • Clarinet sonata
    Clarinet Sonata

    A clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with piano accompaniment.The Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance to the clarinet repertoire....
  • Flute sonata
    Flute sonata

    A flute sonata is a sonata usually for flute and piano, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the Baroque period were very often accompanied in the form of basso continuo....
  • Viola sonata
    Viola sonata

    The viola sonata is a sonata for viola, sometimes with other instruments, usually piano. The earliest viola sonatas are difficult to date for a number of reasons:...
  • Violin sonata
    Violin sonata

    A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque music....
  • Violoncello sonata