Companion to Beethoven’s Pianoforte Sonatas

Author: Donald Francis Tovey

Editor: Barry Cooper

Price: £13.95

Instrumentation: Book

Format: Book

Extent: 304 pages

ISBN: 9781860960864

• Professor Sir Donald Tovey’s celebrated “bar-by-bar analysis of Beethoven’s 32 Pianoforte Sonatas” remains a key text for pianists, students, scholars and music lovers.
• intended as a companion to the Associated Board’s Complete Pianoforte Sonatas edition - edited by Harold Craxton but with each work prefaced by Tovey’s practical and critical notes - the book contains a succinct and illuminating summary of the author’s analytical approach before each sonata is dealt with in detail.
• this new imprint is prefaced with an introduction by Dr Barry Cooper, Lecturer in the Music Department of Manchester University. Tovey’s text is reproduced faithfully; however, Dr Cooper has added footnotes to correct errors of fact or to qualify conclusions drawn by Tovey that the passage of time, since the book was first published in 1931, has suggested might be questionable.
• with the re-issue of this book, Tovey’s famed insight, commonsense and wit will continue to enlighten and entertain the author’s devotees, as well as a new generation of performers and students.

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Contents

• Donald Francis Tovey 1. Sonata in F minor, Op.2, No.1
• Donald Francis Tovey 10. Sonata in G major, Op. 14, No. 2
• Donald Francis Tovey 11. Sonata in B Flat major, Op. 22
• Donald Francis Tovey 12. Sonata in A Flat major, Op. 26
• Donald Francis Tovey 13. Sonata quasi una fantasia, in E Flat major, op. 27, No. 1
• Donald Francis Tovey 14. Sonata quasi una Fantasia in C Sharp minor, op. 27, No. 2
• Donald Francis Tovey 15. Sonata in D major, Op. 28 (Pastorale)
• Donald Francis Tovey 16. Sonata in G major, Op. 31, No. 1
• Donald Francis Tovey 17. Sonata in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2
• Donald Francis Tovey 18. Sonata in E Flat major, Op. 31, No. 3
• Donald Francis Tovey 19. Sonata in G minor, Op. 49, No. 1
• Donald Francis Tovey 2. Sonata in A major, Op. 2, No. 2
• Donald Francis Tovey 20. Sonata in G major, Op. 29, No. 2
• Donald Francis Tovey 21. Sonata in c major, Op. 53
• Donald Francis Tovey 22. Sonata in F major, Op. 54
• Donald Francis Tovey 23. Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)
• Donald Francis Tovey 24. Sonata in F Sharp major, Op. 78
• Donald Francis Tovey 25. Sonata in G major, Op. 79
• Donald Francis Tovey 26. Sonata in E Flat major, Op. 81a (Les Adieux)
• Donald Francis Tovey 27. Sonata in E minor, Op. 90
• Donald Francis Tovey 28. Sonata in A major, Op. 101
• Donald Francis Tovey 29. Sonata in B Flat major, Op. 106 (Hammerklavier)
• Donald Francis Tovey 3. Sonata in C major, Op. 2, No. 3
• Donald Francis Tovey 30. Sonata in E major, Op. 109
• Donald Francis Tovey 31. Sonata in A Flat major, Op. 110
• Donald Francis Tovey 32. Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
• Donald Francis Tovey 4. Sonata in E Flat major, Op. 7
• Donald Francis Tovey 5. Sonata in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1
• Donald Francis Tovey 6. Sonata in F major, Op. 10, No. 2
• Donald Francis Tovey 7. Sonata in D major, Op. 10, No. 3
• Donald Francis Tovey 8. Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 (Pathétique)
• Donald Francis Tovey 9. Sonata in E major, Op. 14, No. 1
• Donald Francis Tovey Conclusion
• Barry Cooper Preface to the Revised Edition

Series Information: Signature

Publication Date: 4th February 1999

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