Piano Sonatas
composer: Viktor Ullmann
editor: Konrad Richter
preface: Konrad Richter
translator preface (English): Heike Bruehl
translator preface (French): Denise Feider
No. 1-4
Instrumentation: piano
Publisher: Schott Music
Volume number: Band 1
Difficulty: Intermediate-difficult
126 Pages - Paperback/Soft Cover
ISMN: 979-0-001-12037-1
Order number: ED 8281
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Description
Ullman‘s seven Piano Sonatas were written between 1936 and 1944. Though rediscovered as recently as 1990, they are now available in a number of recordings.
Neo-classical in approach, the piano writing and the use of polytonality places them closer to Skriabin and Prokofiev than to the works of Ullman‘s teachers Arnold Schoenberg and Alois Hába – this applies also to the Piano Concerto, written during the same period. The numerous quotes from Mozart, Wagner, Mahler, and Dukas to folksongs and tunes from operettas are particulary interesting in this context.
Content
1. Klaviersonate op. 10 (1936)
I Molto agitato • II In memoriam Gustav Mahler. Andante quasi marcia funebre • III Adagio – Presto (16’)
2. Klaviersonate op. 19
I Allegro energico e agitato • II Moderato. Thema und Variationen nach einem altmährischen Volkslied, aufgezeichnet von Leos Janácek • III Prestissimo (12’)
3. Klaviersonate op. 26b (1940)
I Allegro grazioso, ma agitato • II Scherzo. Allegro violente (prestissimo) • III Allegro
grazioso. Sieben Variationen über ein Thema von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (KV 3) (18’)
4. Klaviersonate op. 38 (1941)
I Allegro vivace • II Adagio • III Finale. Vivace molto (19’)
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