Sonatina for piano (op. 56a, 1975)
Movement titles
I. Allegro, II. Elegie, III. Vivace
Instrumentation
Piano
Duration: 7 minutes
Autograph
Title: Sonatina for piano (1975) - Length: 12 pages - Date: I. Dorfgastein 18.Aug.75 II. 25.Aug.75 Dorfgastein III. 1.Sept.75 Dorfgastein - Location: Bavarian State Library Munich
Publisher
N. Simrock Hamburg-London (Boosey & Hawkes) ED 3179 / ISMN M-2211-1129-6
op. 56a, 2nd movement
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Level of difficulty 3/intermediate (intermediate I)
Bertold Hummel wrote the Sonatina for piano op. 56a in the summer of 1975 during a holiday in Dorfgastein for his piano-playing sons. Each movement is dominated by a main interval. The Allegro , in classical sonata form, is dominated by the fifth, the songlike Elegy (A-B-A) by the fourth and the rondo-like Vivace by the tritone. For all its formal rigour, Hummel once again presents himself in this cheerful work as a "player with twelve notes" - as he liked to describe himself.
Martin Hummel