Aspects in the Evolution of the Sonata Genre and Form in the Piano Creation
Aspects in the Evolution of the Sonata Genre and Form in the Piano Creation

Summary/Abstract: In our approach, we start from the conquests of the Baroque music regarding thearchitectural pattern of the sonata, following its evolutionary path along with the flowering ofkeyboard instruments and the creation standard set by Scarlatti who, in his time, named his 555Exercises of great virtuosity, Sonatas. Starting from the 17th-18th centuries from the two types ofsonata - da camera and da chiesa, we reach the time of crystallization of the instrumentalsonata genre and form during the Viennese classicism of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. One ofthe great innovators in the field of sonata form and the setting of the well-known pattern oftoday is Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. In his turn, Haydn will approach the sonata from both astandalone and applied to chamber, symphonic and concert music. We follow the architecturalchanges of the sonata onto new horizons, from Beethoven to Schubert and Liszt. Synthesizing themetamorphoses suffered in the evolution of the sonata genre and form, we observe the tendencyof mirroring at its level the distinct elements in the creation of each composer.

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