Piano sonata

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  Violin Concerto

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  Piano Sonata No. 26

  Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, opus 81a, known as the Les Adieux sonata, was written during the years 1809 and 1810. The title Les Adieux implies a programmatic nature. The French attack on Vienna, led by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1809, forced Beethoven's patron, Archduke...
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  Piano Sonata No. 28

  Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101, was written in 1816 and was dedicated to the pianist Baroness Dorothea Ertmann. This piano sonata runs for about 20 minutes and consists of four movements: The Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101, begins the series of Beethoven's "Late Period...
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  Lyric Suite

  Lyric Suite is a six-movement work for string quartet written by Alban Berg between 1925 and 1926 using methods derived from Schoenberg's twelve tone technique. Though publicly dedicated to Alexander von Zemlinsky (from whose Lyric Symphony it quotes), the work has recently been revealed to possess...
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  Lulu

  Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg. The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904). Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a production by Karl Kraus, but did not begin work on...
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  Wozzeck

  Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in 1925. Since then it has established a solid place for itself in the mainstream operatic tradition, and modern productions are consistently sold out. Though its musical style...

• Altenberg Lieder

  Five Orchestral Songs is a composition by Alban Berg. Composed in 1911-1912, Funf Orchesterlieder op. 4 received its premiere under the baton of Berg's teacher, Arnold Schoenberg. The text comes from 'picture-postcard texts(Ansichtskarten-Texten)' by a contemporary Viennese poet named Peter...

• Seven Early Songs

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• String Quartet Op. 3

  The String Quartet Op. 3 by Alban Berg was composed in 1910. Along with the composer's piano sonata it received its premiere on 14 April 1911, although it was not published until 1920. In two movements (Langsam and Mäßige viertel), the work is more freely atonal than the sonata. It is highly...

• Piano Sonata No. 8

  The Piano Sonata No. 8, opus 66, by Alexander Scriabin, was composed between 1912 and 1913. As one of Scriabin's late piano sonatas, the eighth sonata is highly atonal, though arguably less dissonant than some of his other late works. Scriabin saw some parts of this sonata, which, like the sixth...