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
Literature list of the German Music Council for the "Jugend musiziert" competition:
Level of difficulty 3/intermediate (intermediate I)
Instrumental work Music for children Opus catalogue raisonné Piano and harpsichord Single instrument
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