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Piano sonata no 3, opus 13
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 3 (8’30’’), composed Petts Wood, England, in 1968, differs from the composer’s four other piano sonatas in that it is based largely on a 12-note row and contains relatively little ‘tonal’ music. This stylistic change was the result of the studies the composer undertook with James Patten at Trinity College of Music in London. Like his first sonata, Piano Sonata No 3 falls into four brief movements; the first being about as long as the sum of the other three.
Movement 1, marked 'lento', begins with a rising 12-note theme over a soft F natural pedal point, followed by its falling retrograde. These elements - row and retrograde- are then given detailed consideration. Although suggestions of tonality can be found throughout the sonata it is the retrograde version of the row that usually prevails. A short second theme, marked 'pigramente' (lazily), also derived from the row, makes its appearance in bar 47. This leads to a bravura development section, followed by a short ‘tonal’ adaptation of the ‘retrograde’ theme marked 'tragico', now functioning as recapitulation.
Movement 2 is marked 'adagio' and sees the 12-note row turned into slow sonorous bell-like chords.
Movement 3, marked 'scherzando', consists of a highly rhythmical version of the sonata’s (main) retrograde idea with a fleeting trio in the middle. This brief mercurial movement ends with a dramatic unison 'presto', the pianist’s hands separated by six octaves.
Movement 4 has no descriptive marking and is essentially an epilogue made up of fragments of the sonata’s main ideas, with the ‘lazy’ 'pigramente' second subject stated in full, followed by the retrograde theme stated in the piano’s lowest register. The sonata closes with shortened 'espressivo' versions of row and retrograde played over an E natural rather than the opening F natural pedal point.Score. 'Composed Petts Wood, Kent, 1968.
Vater Busch vom Missionshause
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Jan Leibrandt
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Leopold Brecher
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Emmy Bekker
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Rev. Wilhelm Beschuss
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Rev. Philippe Diehl
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Frau Genahr
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Gena Gordon
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