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The genre originated as instrumental adaptation of the three-part texture common in Italian vocal music in the late 16th century. The earliest published trio sonatas appeared in Venice (Salamone Rossi Il primo libro delle sinfonie e gagliarde, 1607) and in Milan (Giovanni Paolo Cima, Sonata a tre for violin, cornett and continuo in the collection Concerti ecclesiastici, 1610).
In the trio sonata, a popular genre of the 17th and early 18th century, two melodic instruments are accompanied by a basso continuo, making three parts in all. But because the basso continuo is usually played by two instruments (typically a cello or bass viol and a keyboard instrument such as the harpsichord ), performances of trio sonatas ...
The final movement (6/8, G minor) is the movement most strikingly similar to Smetana's Sonata in G minor (4th movement, Finale molto vivace). The first theme and the two-versus-three figures are nearly identical. The scoring accommodates the violin and cello as accompaniment figures to the piano until the arrival of the second theme.
Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 (so-called facile or semplice sonata; Vienna, Jun. 26, 1788) Piano Sonata No. 17 in B-flat major, K. 570 (Vienna, February, 1789)
Piano Sonata No. 5 in G major, K. 283/189h (Munich, Autumn 1774) Piano Sonata No. 6 in D major, K. 284/205b (Munich, February–March 1775) Piano Sonata No. 7 in C major, K. 309/284b (Mannheim, November 8, 1777) Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310/300d (Paris, Summer 1778) Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, K. 311/284c (Mannheim, November ...
A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements , although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement ( Scarlatti , Liszt , Scriabin , Medtner , Berg ), others with two movements ( Haydn , Beethoven ), some contain five ( Brahms ' Third Piano Sonata , Czerny 's ...
The Sonatensatz in B-flat major D. 28, also known as Piano Trio in B-flat major, is a single-movement work for piano trio by Franz Schubert. This work was written in 1812, immediately after the fifteen-year-old composer lost his place in Vienna's Imperial Chapel Choir due to his voice breaking. [ 1 ]
A sonatina (French: “sonatine”, German: “Sonatine") is a small sonata.As a musical term, sonatina has no single strict definition; it is rather a title applied by the composer to a piece that is in basic sonata form, but is shorter and lighter in character, or technically more elementary, than a typical sonata. [1]