Classical Composer: | Boccherini, Luigi |
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Work: | Cello Sonata No. 6 in A Major, G. 4 |
Year Composed: | 1772 |
Instrumentation: | vc, cont |
Publisher: | Robert Bremner |
Duration: | 00:10:00 |
Period: | Classical (1750-1830) |
Work Category: | Chamber Music |
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The Sonata in A major, listed in the catalogue by the French musicologist Yves Gerard as G4, opens with a movement marked Allegro moderato, to which there is also an alternative version. Boccherini's sonata movements show some flexibility and variety in form. This sonata, which, like its companions, makes some demands on the cellist, offers an opening theme that includes a characteristic broken-chord passage for the cello. The thematic material is further developed, now with triplet rhythms, with secondary material in the dominant key, the whole section then repeated.
The second part of the movement makes reference to what has gone before, as it makes its way back to the original key, offering the earlier material now in a varied form. The decorated Adagio that follows, in the same key, moves forward through expected modulation to a final virtuoso cadenza. The sonata ends with a movement marked, typically, Affettuoso. This movement is again in two repeated sections, the second of which refers to the material of the first, offering, as before, a fuller return to the secondary material, now in the home key.
Keith Anderson
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