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Piano Sonatas
YGK These Piano Sonatas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Beethoven sonata nicknamed after a critic's comparison to Lake Lucerne at nighttime | Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor (“Moonlight”) |
| The pupil to whom Beethoven dedicated his "Moonlight" Sonata | Giulietta Guicciardi |
| The Chopin composition inspired by the Presto agitato third movement of the "Moonlight" Sonata | Fantaisie-Impromptu |
| The Beethoven sonata nicknamed for its German title "Grosse Sonate für das Hammer-Klavier" | Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major (“Hammerklavier”) |
| The pianist who performed the "unplayable" Hammerklavier Sonata in 1836 to a review by Hector Berlioz | Franz Liszt |
| The Beethoven sonata dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky that Edward Elgar "hinted" at in his Enigma Variations | Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor (“Pathétique”) |
| The sonata Beethoven considered his most difficult before composing the Hammerklavier | Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor (“Appassionata”) |
| The Beethoven sonata that unusually has four movements and lacks a slow movement | Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major (“The Hunt”) |
| The programmatic Beethoven sonata written after Archduke Rudolphe fled a Napoleonic invasion | Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major (“Les Adieux”) |
| The three German titles for the movements of "Les Adieux" representing farewell, absence, and return | Lebewohl, Abwesenheit, and Das Wiedersehen |
| The Mozart sonata featuring the ubiquitous "Rondo alla turca" (Turkish March) third movement | Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major |
| The Ottoman military ensembles Mozart intended to evoke in the "Turkish March" | Janissary bands |
| The Mozart sonata explicitly written for beginners, also known as the "Semplice" or "Facile" | Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major |
| The left-hand accompaniment figure outlining a major triad used in the "Simple" sonata | Alberti bass |
| The composer who wrote an original second piano part to be played as a duet with Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16 | Edvard Grieg |
| The Chopin sonata containing the famous "Funeral March" third movement | Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor |
| The village where Chopin wrote his Piano Sonata No. 2 while living at George Sand's manor | Nohant |
| The movement of Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 described as "wind washing over graves" | Fourth movement (Presto) |
| The Beethoven movement described by Franz Liszt as a "flower between two chasms" | The second movement of the "Moonlight" Sonata |
| The Beethoven movement referred to as a "mausoleum of collective sorrow" | The third movement (Adagio sostenuto) of the "Hammerklavier" Sonata |
| The pianist who premiered Liszt's Sonata in B minor instead of Liszt himself | Hans von Bülow |
| The composer to whom Franz Liszt dedicated his Piano Sonata in B minor | Robert Schumann |
| The musical structure of Liszt’s sonata, where four sections serve as subdivisions of a single large sonata form | Double-function form |
| The British composer whose last initial is used for the catalogue numbers (e.g., S. 178) of Liszt's works | Humphrey Searle |
| The choreographer who created the ballet Marguerite and Armand based on Searle's orchestration of the sonata | Frederick Ashton |
| The formal characteristic of the Sonata in B minor regarding the transition between its sections | No pause (or continuous/one movement) |
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