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rubinsteinmad

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Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

on: December 24, 2015, 01:48:26 AM

What are your favorite piano sonatas of the classical period?
Come on, you gotta have one... short and sweet? Grand and complex? Imperial and regal? Or rustic?

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thalbergmad

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Re: Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

Reply #1 on: December 24, 2015, 07:06:29 AM

Woelfl Op.33 No.1.

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Re: Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

Reply #2 on: December 24, 2015, 07:13:28 AM

Right now, the Beethoven Tempest sonata.

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Re: Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

Reply #3 on: December 24, 2015, 08:05:07 AM

Nothing really odd for me.

Beethoven Op. 111.

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Re: Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

Reply #4 on: December 24, 2015, 08:21:43 AM

Mine is Grand Sonata op 7 Beethoven. I aspire to learn that one day. It will be a huge two year undertaking for me.

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Re: Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

Reply #5 on: December 28, 2015, 12:05:19 PM

Apassionata

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Re: Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

Reply #6 on: December 29, 2015, 02:05:54 PM

like so many, hard to list given i have top marks for stuff in early classical , mid, and late.

on the late end really like Bomtempo no 2 and no 9

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Re: Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

Reply #7 on: December 29, 2015, 11:05:37 PM

Quote from: briansaddleback on December 24, 2015, 08:21:43 AM

Mine is Grand Sonata op 7 Beethoven. I aspire to learn that one day. It will be a huge two year undertaking for me.

To the tune of the opening theme of the last movement... "Opus Seven, it sounds like heaven". A real gem.

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Re: Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

Reply #8 on: January 18, 2016, 11:48:20 PM

Haydn: Sonata Hob XVI 40
Mozart:Sonata K.332
Beethoven-Sonata Op.26

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Beethoven Op 2/2
Chopin Op 20, maybe op 47/38
Debussy Etude 7
Grieg Op 16
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Chopin Concerti 1 and 2
Beethoven Waldstein
Ravel Miroirs

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Re: Favorite Classical Piano Sonatas

Reply #9 on: January 22, 2016, 08:55:15 PM

I guess Beethoven's op. 81a (Original, huh?)

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