Piano Sonata (Berg)

Piano Sonata (Berg)

Alban Berg's "Piano sonata" is his only piano work given an opus number (Op. 1). He wrote it during the years 1907 and 1908, but it was not published until 1911.

The sonata is not in the typical classical form of three or four contrasting movements, but consists of a single movement centered in the key of B minor. However Berg makes frequent use of chromaticism, whole-tone scales, and wandering key centers, giving the tonality a very unstable feel. The piece is in the typical sonata form, with an exposition, development and recapitulation, but the composition also relies heavily on Arnold Schoenberg's idea of developing variation, a method to ensure the unity of a piece of music by deriving all aspects of a composition from a single idea.

ee also

*List of compositions by Alban Berg

External links

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* [http://gardnermuseum.libsyn.com/media/gardnermuseum/berg_op1.mp3 recording by Jonathan Biss] from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format


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