Igor Stravinsky ‒ Piano Sonata in F-Sharp Minor

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Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Piano Sonata in F-Sharp Minor (1903 - 1904)

Performed by Victor Sangiorgio

00:00 - No. 1 Allegro
10:52 - No. 2 Scherzo
15:45 - No. 3 Andante
21:29 - No. 4 Allegro - Andante

Composing at the piano was a life-long preoccupation for Stravinsky, whose music for the instrument spanned a forty-year period, and reflected his distinct stylistic changes, his associated domestic and financial status and the geo-political situations in which he lived. Thus, prior to his trilogy of pre-war Russian ballets, his piano music up to 1908 might be regarded largely as imitative and can be viewed very much through the lens of other composers. It was as a twenty-year-old law student at St Petersburg University that Stravinsky first showed his earliest piano pieces to Rimsky-Korsakov - whose son Vladimir was there also as a law student. In the agitated rhythms of the modest ternary form Scherzo in G minor of 1902 Stravinsky shows considerable promise and, in its harmonic vocabulary, a debt to Tchaikovsky.

A year later Stravinsky began his ambitious four-movement Piano Sonata in F sharp minor, turning again to Rimsky-Korsakov for help when his inexperience of large-scale structures led him into difficulties with its formal organization. Here, Tchaikovsky and also Glazunov are influences although Stravinsky recalls of this early sonata in later years that it was ‘an inept imitation of Beethoven’. Possibly this first effort points more to a composer attempting to use traditional Germanic models for his own ends, rather than any direct borrowing of Beethoven. While there are, of course, no specific traces of Beethoven, one can hear in the sonata’s outer movements a dramatic weight and, if a little uncharitably, a certain failure to foreshorten over-used material. It is, however, in the infectious Vivo and elegant charm of the Andante (with its echoes of Rachmaninov) that supporters of this posthumously published work will be found.
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I think I've found where Prokofiev got the idea for his 1st sonata...

LukeFaulkner
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It amazes me that he knew also to compose in a Romantic style. 9:52 Octave Messiaen called Stravinsky the man with 1001 musical styles of composing.

cristinaolaru
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After hearing The Rite of Spring I can't believe Stravinsky wrote this (although this is one of his earlier works).

SJ-gyrf
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Wow! The longer you stay with this, the better it gets!

Linkin
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This is surprisingly beautiful and refreshing. Stravinsky was indeed a great composer.

tuberobotto
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I would’ve never guessed that Stravinsky wrote this! He’s a very versatile composer 😳

Scriabin_fan
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I see that this sonata is very surprising for most of the listeners here; and it's true that's absolutely different from the more famous Strawinsky's Rite of Spring.... but it's nice to see how much he mastered the old language of composition before try something different. I suggest the marvelous symphony in e flat (op.1) if you don't already know! Cheerss

giovannibattistaboccardo
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The Spirit of the large themes by Glazunov, mixed up with deep, somber taste in harmonization created by young Strawinsky originated a great work, plenty of force and also full of late romantic angst, really fascinating and capable to have an influence also on the more distracted listeners....beautiful.

alessandropelizzoli
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A wonderful recitation of late romantic with a modern touch which brought the best out of a 21 Year old Stravinsky.

paulamrod
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It is hard to believe that Stravinsky composed this, even though it must have quite early in his career because it reminds me, a little...of early Scriabin...but so nice to hear, though...THANK YOU!!!....

TheJamesalden
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Только знакомлюсь с его творчеством и не жалею, очень свежо.

almasmusic
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This is very similar to many other Russian composer's early sonatas at the time. Prokofiev sonata 1, and Scriabin sonata 1 for example are very similar to this one.An interesting comparison.

PieInTheSky
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Utterly fascinating, it could have been early Medtner or Rachmaninov, and I'm sure Stravinsky could have continued this path with even greater results, but he deliberately choose not to and create something entirely different, amazing. Thanks for sharing this piece in this lovely performance by the way.

christophedevos
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Oh wow that is some RUSSIAN Stravinsky boy howdy. You can practically smell the residual Rimsky-Korsakov, wow. What a fun find, thank you!

paydentaylor
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This is really good, especially for a composer who wrote it in their early 20's. I read on Wikipedia how Stravinsky many years later described this music as "fortunately lost". I guess because he thought it was too imitative of Beethoven, Rachmaninov, and Scriabin? Which must've made him think its amateurish?

christopherdunkak
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No one has mentioned the influence of Glazunov yet, very clear here.

dolcesfogato
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It is amazing that Stravinsky can compose a sonata like this!It is very different from his style.This sonata sounds like Beethoven's work

tigger
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Thank you for that detailed and insightful description!

nathanhol
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Dieses schöne spätromantiscbe Werk des 21-jährigen Strawinsky beweist dass er schon damals das Handwerk meisterhaft beherrschte, zumindest im Klavierbereich, wobei er sich ohne falsche Scham auf grosse, von ihm geliebte Vorbilder und Vorgänger bezieht (etwa auf Schumann, Brahms, Tschaikovski, Skrjabin).

niklausgaschen
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A valuable lesson to composers. Master the techniques and idioms of the old masters before going off the reservation, otherwise you're just noodling.

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