Classical Composer: | Haydn, Franz Joseph |
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Work: | Keyboard Sonata No. 58 in C Major, Hob.XVI:48 |
Year Composed: | 1789 |
Instrumentation: | pf |
Publisher: | Universal Edition |
Duration: | 00:11:00 |
Period: | Classical (1750-1830) |
Work Category: | Instrumental |
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The Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI: 48, first appeared in 1789 in the first number of the Musikalischer Pot-Pourri published by Christoph Gottlob Breitkopf in Leipzig. It opens with a slow movement, marked Andante con espressione, and shows an attention to the dynamics of the new fortepiano that heralds the work of Beethoven. The two repeated sections of the principal theme are followed by a more complex excursion into C minor, before the return of the first theme in C major in embellished form, followed by a second version of the C minor episode. A wider range of the keyboard and its possible sonorities is explored in the final section, based on the main theme. The final Rondo opens with a spritely main theme but goes on to exploit more grandiose keyboard effects in thicker lower register chords and octaves and a C minor section, after which the main theme returns, in its final guise using sonorities that Haydn had not used before in his sonatas and hence in notable contrast to the group of delicate sonatas for Princess Marie Hermenegild.
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