Anton Rubinstein Piano Sonata No.1 in E minor

[hodi]

anyone played/read this piece?
how difficult is it  comparing to other romantic piano sonatas? (schumann,beethoven,medtner, etc...)
musically,technical challenges that it involves...

[hodi]

bump.
anyone have some information ?

[stevebob]

Dang, two and a half years is a long time to wait. 

Here's what Maurice Hinson has to say about the piece in his Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire:

For a teenager, impressively written; the youthful ardor of the first movement being well contrasted with the improvisatory musings that follow in the slow movement.  An academic fugue breaks the grotesque character of the propulsive finale of this four-movement piece.  Probably the first Russian piano sonata.  Reminiscent of Mendelssohn's early works.  M-D.

(M-D means moderately difficult, which naturally invites questions like relative to what, for whom and in what ways; unfortunately, Hinson's categories of difficulty are very broad, and he tends to be non-specific as to technical challenges.)

[hodi]

Thanks for the information steve
i'm always afraid of long pieces
do you have that fear too?