Piano Sonata No. 1
by Lowell Liebermann
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.410413050

Composed by Lowell Liebermann. Sws. Classical. Part. With Standard notation. Composed 1977. Opus 1. 12 pages. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #410-41305. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.410413050).

UPC: 680160087129. 9x12 inches.

The First Piano Sonata Op.1 is the first composition to survive the self-critical annihilation of my early works. (The rest of my juvenilia was destroyed in order to prevent future musicologists from dragging these fetal skeletons, kicking and screaming, from my musical closet). It was completed in 1977 when I was 15 years old and premiered the following year at Carnegie Recital Hall by the nervous young composer. It was later dedicated to Stephen Hough, who gave the work its first European performances. The Sonata is a formally terse work in four short movements. The first, Adagio, utilizes fugal elements and chromatic harmony in an abbreviated sonata-allegro form. The second movement, Presto, is a fiendishly difficult little Scherzo whose finger-twisting intricacies provide real terrors for the pianist. The third movement is a lyrical Lento built out of repetitions of melodic fragments, bell-like sonorities, and a central ostinato section. The final movement follows attacca: a violent Presto with changing meters, and a more playful secondary theme. The First Piano Sonata has been recorded by David Korevaar for Musical Heritage Society and by Margaret Mills on the Cambria label.
The First Piano Sonata Op.1 is the first composition to survive the self-critical annihilation of my early works.  (The rest of my juvenilia was destroyed in order to prevent future musicologists from dragging these fetal skeletons, kicking and screaming, from my musical closet).  It was completed in 1977 when I was 15 years old and premiered the following year at Carnegie Recital Hall by the nervous young composer.  It was later dedicated to Stephen Hough, who gave the work its first European performances.The Sonata is a formally terse work in four short movements.  The first, Adagio, utilizes fugal elements and chromatic harmony in an abbreviated sonata-allegro form.  The second movement, Presto, is a fiendishly difficult little Scherzo whose finger-twisting intricacies provide real terrors for the pianist.  The third movement is a lyrical Lento built out of repetitions of melodic fragments, bell-like sonorities, and a central ostinato section.  The final movement follows attacca: a violent Presto with changing meters, and a more playful secondary theme.The First Piano Sonata has been recorded by David Korevaar for Musical Heritage Society and by Margaret Mills on the Cambria label.