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casparma

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Any modern sonata?

on: October 30, 2005, 08:02:08 PM

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...

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pita bread

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Re: Any modern sonata?

Reply #1 on: October 30, 2005, 08:24:21 PM

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

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phil13

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Reply #2 on: October 30, 2005, 09:11:51 PM

Mine and John Carey's sonatas...

Phil

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Tash

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Re: Any modern sonata?

Reply #3 on: October 30, 2005, 10:06:42 PM

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

plus stravinsky

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

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sharon_f

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Re: Any modern sonata?

Reply #4 on: October 31, 2005, 08:49:09 PM

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!

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Re: Any modern sonata?

Reply #5 on: November 02, 2005, 12:25:40 AM

Andre Jolivet Sonatas 1 & 2

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dmk

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Re: Any modern sonata?

Reply #6 on: November 02, 2005, 12:52:43 AM

- 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

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Re: Any modern sonata?

Reply #7 on: November 02, 2005, 01:55:28 AM

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

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Reply #8 on: November 02, 2005, 03:15:41 AM

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

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