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Sonata in B minor, Hob.XVI/32 Franz Joseph Haydn
(1732 1809)
I. Allegro Moderato
II. Tempo di Menuet
III. Presto
This sonata was composed between 1774 and 1776, during the
Storm and Stress stylistic period in Germany.
Debussy composed this work in 1910, which emulated the In 1827, Schubert wrote eight Impromptus for solo piano in
valse lente genre that was prominent in Frances social scene Vienna.
at that time.
This impromptu begins with a cascading scalic passage in the
The title may be translated as The even slower waltz. Gerald right hand while being accompanied by a syncopated left hand
Larner states that La plus que lente consists of a hesistantly figure. The middle section is in B minor and depicts a sense of
syncopated main theme in G flat major, with harmonic impatience as accents and fortissimo markings predominate.
suspensions and an appassionato exclamation in right- hand This implies Schuberts lesser-known character, as remarked
octaves. by Eduard von Bauernfeld, in Schubert there slumbered a
dual nature. An oscillating figure marks the end of the middle
Overall, a languid atmosphere is created as denoted by a section and the initial idea returns. The piece ends with an
seemingly prolonged ending, marked Molto rubato con abrupt coda, and interestingly, in the parallel minor.
morbidezza which means very freely with tenderness.