Any modern sonata?

[casparma]

I am wondering, is there any mordern-time composer who composes classical sonatas?

because all the sonatas I know are from composers of classical period...

[pita bread]

Well, there are many written for piano after 1900:

Barber - Sonata Op. 26*
Bartok - Sonata sz 80* (the piano, after all, is a percussion instrument)
Boulez - Sonatas 1 - 4
Bridge - Sonata (If you like late Scriabin and Debussy, this is for you)
Copland - Sonata
Dutilleux - Sonata (blues!)
Ginastera -  Sonatas 1 - 3
Godowsky - Sonata
Ives - Concord Sonata, Random short sonata
Kapustin - Sonata 1 - 9 (neo-classcal jazz)
Prokofiev - Sonatas 1 - 9 (War Sonatas 6 - 8 )*
Rachmaninoff - Sonatas 1 - 2
Ravel - Sonatine
Sciarrino - Sonata 1 (super-impressionisim)
Scriabin - Sonatas 4 - 10*
Sorabji - Sonatas 1 - 5
Wild - Sonata (with a tango a la Ricky Martin!)

* are works you should probably check out if you haven't already

I'll add more to the list later

[phil13]

Mine and John Carey's sonatas...

Phil

[Tash]

a couple of australian composers- carl vine has 2 piano sonatas, and nigel westlake

plus stravinsky

that's at the top of my head...

[sharon_f]

Berg
Hindemith wrote 3, I believe
Elliot Carter
Leo Ornstein composed 8 (the last when he was in his nineties!)
Norman Dello Joio wrote 3. I absolutely love the third!

[quantum]

Andre Jolivet Sonatas 1 & 2

[dmk]

- Janacek Sonata 1/X/1905
- Kabalevsky Sonatas 1-3
- Sir Michael Tippett Sonatas 1-4
- Malcolm Williamson Sonatas 1-4
- Roy Agnew composed 6 (i think!)
- Khatchaturian Sonata in Eb major
- Richard Rodney Bennett has at least 1 sonata for piano
- Shchedrin Sonatas 1 & 2

there are heaps out there!!!!

cheers

dmk

[g_s_223]

Schnittke - Sonatas 1-3
Gubaidulina - Sonata
Ustvolskaya - Sonatas 1-6 (shocking stuff!)

[frombachtobarber]

If you're counting early 20th century, then Prokofiev wrote 9.