Piano
SKU:
BR.EB-8993
Urtext. Composed
by Joachim Raff. Edited
by Ulrich Mahlert. Solo
instruments; Softbound.
Edition Breitkopf.
Sonata; Romantic. Score.
112 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 8993.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-8993).
ISBN 9790004187227. 9
x 12 inches.
The
three piano sonatas by
Joachim Raff (1822-1882),
representing his three
main creative phases,
occupy a special position
among his more than 100
piano pieces. They
reflect a significant
compositional aspiration
whereas Raff otherwise
frequently leans towards
the salon-music genre in
his piano music. Raff
composed the early sonata
op. 14 in 1844 after his
first works were
positively evaluated and
Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy had encouraged
him to venture a career
as a composer. The
Fantasie-Sonate [Fantasy
Sonata] in d minor op.
168, Raff wrote in 1871
at the height of his fame
as one of Germany's then
most-played composers.
Its dedication to Camille
Saint-Saens shows his
opposition to the rampant
German disapproval of
France and its music
representatives in the
wake of the
Franco-Prussian war of
1870/71. The second
version of the sonata op.
14, composed in the fall
of 1881, had only the
opus number in common
with the earlier version.
In this late work Raff
had created an entirely
new sonata. ,,Beautifully
presented on cream paper,
with exceptional clarity
and generous spacing. The
Fantasie-Sonate in D
minor Op. 168, in
particular, is a
masterpiece which
manifests both
considerable power and
exquisite craftsmanship.
(www.pianodao.com).
Sonata-Fantasy
