Piano_Sonata_No._5_(Prokofiev)

Piano Sonata No. 5 (Prokofiev)

Piano Sonata No. 5 (Prokofiev)

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Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Major, Opus 38, was written at Ettal near Oberammergau in the Bavarian Alps during the composer's stay there in 1923. He would revise it thirty years later, at the end of his life, but not drastically, as his Opus 135, and it is this version that is usually played. The work is dedicated it to Pierre Souvtchinski, a musicologist and friend.[1][2] All eight of Prokofiev's other piano sonatas were written in Russia.[3] The revisions to this piece, made in 1952–53 in Russia, are mostly in the last movement.[4]

Movements

  1. Allegro tranquillo
  2. Andantino
  3. Un poco allegretto

References

  1. [1]
    Sorensen, Sugi (2005). "The Prokofiev Page – Piano Sonata No 5 in C major, Op 38". Allegro Media. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  2. [2]
    Sorensen, Sugi (2005). "The Prokofiev Page – Piano Sonata No 5 in C major, Op 135". Allegro Media. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
  3. [3]
    Boris Berman, Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer (Yale University Press, 2008), p. 102.
  4. [4]
    Boris Berman, Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer (Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 103–104.
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