This is followed by the appearance of a march-like theme in E-flat, accompanied by triads in the same key, before ebbing away into a chromatic closing subject. The restless mood of the first movement is established by the running sixteenth notes which begin the sonata, leading to a melodic line which is a verbatim quote in retrograde of the opening motif of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 2 consists of three movements:Ī typical performance takes approximately 25 minutes. Efrem Flaks, who was Shostakovich's recital partner for the performance of the song cycle, remembered that the composer took unusual care in preparing his performance of the sonata the concert was the first time he played the piano in public in Moscow since September 1942. Shostakovich premiered the sonata in Moscow on June 6, 1943, on the same program as the premiere of his Six Romances on Verses by British Poets. 2, which he dedicated to the memory of Nikolayev he had completed the final draft of the sonata on March 17 while recovering his health at a sanatorium in Arkhangelskoye. A few weeks later on April 21, 1943, Shostakovich wrote to Glikman that he had just completed the Piano Sonata No.
In a letter to Ivan Sollertinsky from March 1943, the composer claimed that the budding sonata was a symptom of his ongoing " graphomania" and that the score had been "nearly all" written down. Soon thereafter, Shostakovich played the first movement of the final draft for Lev Oborin, who approved of the music, but suggested some edits which Shostakovich accepted. Shostakovich continued to maintain in a letter to Vissarion Shebalin dated February 22 that the sonata would be cast into four movements. 63" detailing this eventually abandoned concept are extant none of this material was used in the final version of the sonata. Three pages of rough drafts labeled "Piano Sonata No. Initially, Shostakovich had envisioned a four-movement sonata in C-sharp minor.
In January 1943, Shostakovich commenced work on his second piano sonata, whose composition was concurrent with his waning enthusiasm for work on the opera The Gamblers as well as his own bout with typhoid fever. "I have thought much about his life and shall miss him sorely." "I loved him greatly and it grieves me to think that I shall never see him again", Shostakovich wrote to his friend Isaak Glikman. That October the composer learned about the death of his former piano professor Leonid Nikolayev, who had died in Tashkent earlier that month from typhoid fever. In the fall of 1942 Shostakovich and his family were living in the city of Kuybyshev, where they had been evacuated by the Soviet government in order to escape the Nazi siege of Leningrad. John Jonas Gruen said that there was "nothing obscure or technically impenetrable" about this sonata, but that "something disquieting-something faintly obsessive-emerges from its deceptively simple structure." Contents
34 from 1933 and his second attempt at composing a piano sonata in the key of B-minor. It was his first piano composition since the 24 Preludes, Op. 61 by Dmitri Shostakovich, the last of his piano sonatas, was composed in early 1943.
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