Keyboard Sonata
by Joseph Haydn
KeyE-flat major
Catalogue
GenreSonata
StyleClassical
DedicationKatharina and Marianna Auenbrugger
Published1780 (1780)
Movements3
ScoringKeyboard

The Sonata in E-flat major (Hob. XVI/38, L. 51) is a keyboard sonata composed by Joseph Haydn, also referred to as a piano sonata. The three-movement work was published by Artaria in 1780 in a set of six sonatas dedicated to the sisters Katharina and Marianna Auenbrugger.[1]

The sonata has three movements:

  1. Allegro moderato (E-flat major)
  2. Adagio (C minor)
  3. Finale: Allegro (E-flat major)

The first movement is in sonata form. It is monothematic, in that the movement only presents and significantly develops one distinct theme.[2]

The second movement is a siciliana. The third is in da capo form, akin to a minuet and trio.[1][3] The two movements are linked by an attacca direction: the second movement has an open ending on a G-major chord; the third movement follows immediately, and that chord becomes the submediant triad (with raised third) of the new movement's key of E-flat major.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Sisman, Elaine (2003). Haydn's Solo Keyboard Music, in "Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music" (ed. Robert L. Marshall). Routledge. p. 287.
  2. ↑ Petty, Wayne (1994). "Cyclic Integration in Haydn's E♭ Piano Sonata Hob. XVI:38". Theory and Practice. 19: 37.
  3. ↑ Hinson, Maurice (2005). The Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume 2. Alfred Music. p. 18. ISBN 1457421410.
  4. ↑ Petty, Wayne (1994). "Cyclic Integration in Haydn's E♭ Piano Sonata Hob. XVI:38". Theory and Practice. 19: 41.
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