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Rev. August Wulfhorst
No full text295.H1.43.jpg created from original photograph in the [Van Wijk Rhenish Missionary Society Collection] held in the Manuscripts Section of the Stellenbosch Library and Information Service.Photograph of Rev. August Wulfhorst
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L. G. Brecher
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Cornelius en Christian Bam
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Piano sonata no 2, opus 10
No full textDigital copies were created from a selection of items in the original hard copy John Simon collection held in DOMUS in the Stellenbosch University Music Library.Piano Sonata No 2 (op.10) (13’10’’) was composed in Bexleyheath, Kent, in 1967.
This through-composed fantasy sonata falls into five sections or movements marked 'Introduction and Exposition', 'Awakening and Development', 'Reflection 1', 'Recapitulation and Finale' and ' Reflection 2'.
The sonata commences with a fundamental motif that recurs in many guises throughout the piece. The 'Exposition' has two themes: one fast and forward moving, with chords in the right hand built round the interval of a major seventh, the other lyrical and expressive that pays tribute to Chopin. This second theme, which is given detailed consideration in the exposition, is rounded off by a coda.
The sonata’s 'Awakening and Development' section is dominated by the fundamental motif and the ‘Chopin’ second theme. These are expanded and transformed into music filled with powerful forward momentum. The 'Development' culminates in a bravura climax ending in the sonata’s (suggested) key of B minor.
The introspection to be found in 'Reflection 1' recalls the slow movement of the composer’s Piano Sonata No 1. The lightly scored ‘nostalgic’ music soon gives way to an impassioned version of the sonata’s ‘Chopin’ second subject over a B flat pedal point. The movement ends with an improvisatory passage that leads directly into the fourth movement.
'Recapitulation and Finale', the heart of the work, sees the sonata’s thematic ideas developed and contrasted; the pianism ranging from light-fingered passage work to full-chorded textures. The movement’s boisterous climax, based on a heroic transformation of the ‘Chopin’ theme, is interrupted by the fundamental motif now in heavily accented cluster chords in the left hand, the keys of B minor-major briefly in command.
'Reflection 2' -coda- is a slow, introspective movement based on the ‘Chopin’ theme, together with recollections of the fourth movement’s boisterous climax; the work closing with the fundamental motive in the bass and bell-like chords in the treble.
The generally serious mood of the piece was probably the result of shadows of the Cold War, so tangible in the Northern Hemisphere during the late 1960s. Dr Zhivago, both novel and film, were very much to the fore then. Not surprisingly, the names one often heard were those of Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Dmitri Shostakovich. The sonata’s brutalist character perhaps owes something to Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, which the composer liked to play at the time.Score. 'Composed Bexleyheath, Kent, 1967.' Dedicated to John Mills
Brecher
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Mrs. Margarithe Beiderbecke (nee Hahn)
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Miss Scholtz
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P. Marais
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