Piano Sonata, Op.1 (Berg, Alban)

Contents 1 Performances 1.1 Recordings 1.2 Naxos 2 Sheet Music 2.1 Scores 2.2 Braille Scores 3 Free Recordings 4 General Information 5 Navigation etc.

Performances

• Recordings (3)
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Recordings

 Complete Performance
*#356152 - 12.44MB - 11:06 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 1524×⇩ - MP3 - Lumineux

MP3 file (audio)
Lumineux (2014/12/13)

Performer Pages Peter Bradley-Fulgoni (piano) Publisher Info. PianOLYPHONY: Music of and around the 20th Century Peter Bradley-Fulgoni Copyright Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 [tag/del] Misc. Notes Recorded 2012, St. Paul's Hall, Huddersfield University. Peter Hill (sound engineer) Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

 Complete Performance
*#78142 - 10.41MB - 11:22 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 7403×⇩ - MP3 - Carolus

MP3 file (audio)
Carolus (2010/9/8)

Publisher Info. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Performers Jonathan Biss (piano) Copyright Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 3.0 [tag/del] Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

 Complete Performance (EU)
*#711037 - 18.09MB - 11:42 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/N/V - 143×⇩ - MP3 - Lucas-coelho

MP3 file (audio)
Lucas-coelho (2021/6/23)

Performer Pages Glenn Gould (piano) Publisher Info. Columbia Masterworks, 1959. ML 5336. Copyright Public Domain - Non-PD US [tag/del] Misc. Notes Source: Internet Archive Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

Naxos

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Sheet Music

• Scores (6)
• Parts (0)
• Arrangements and Transcriptions (0)
• Libretti (0)
• Other (0)
• Braille Scores (1)
• Source Files (0)

Scores

 Complete Score
*#234327 - 0.62MB, 11 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 18153×⇩ - Massenetique

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Massenetique (2012/6/15)

Editor First edition (reprint) Publisher. Info. Berlin: Schlesinger, n.d.[1910]. Plate S.9539. Reprinted New York: Associated Music Publishers, n.d. Copyright Public Domain [tag/del] Misc. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

 Complete Score
*#254701 - 2.99MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 8154×⇩ - Geo

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Geo (2012/10/16)

 Complete Score (A4, 600 dpi)
*#879808 - 1.33MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 25×⇩ - Albrights

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Albrights (2023/10/12)

 Complete Score (Letter, 600dpi)
*#879809 - 1.33MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 35×⇩ - Albrights

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Albrights (2023/10/12)

Editor First edition (reprint) Publisher. Info. Berlin: Schlesinger, n.d.[1910]. Plate S.9539. Reprinted Vienna: Universal Edition, 1926. (with spurious copyright claim) Copyright Public Domain [tag/del/mrg] Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

 Complete Score
*#02556 - 0.55MB, 9 (#20-28) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 17299×⇩ - Jujimufu

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Jujimufu (2006/12/27)

Publisher. Info. Moscow: Muzyka, n.d.(ca.1970). Plate 6250. Copyright Public Domain [tag/del] Misc. Notes from unidentified collection Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

 Complete Score
*#651355 - 0.95MB, 9 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 2721×⇩ - Antide Otto

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Antide Otto (2020/10/9)

Editor Antoine Portes (b. 1990) Publisher. Info. Antoine Portes, 2020. Copyright Creative Commons Zero 1.0 [tag/del] Misc. Notes Made with Musescore 3.5.013199 Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

Braille Scores

 Complete Score
*#894486 - 0.02MB, ? pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 85×⇩ - Feduol

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Feduol (2024/1/15)

Editor Hu Haipeng (b. 1984) Publisher. Info. Hu Haipeng, 2020. Copyright Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 [tag/del] Misc. Notes Braille score in bar-over-bar format, 40 cells per line. See here for additional information on Braille scores. Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

Free Recordings

• Martin Malmgren, piano (Piano Society)
• Ahmed Anzaldúa, piano (Piano Society)
• Erik Wickström, piano (Piano Society)
• Klassik-resampled (digital realization)

General Information

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The early sonata sketches of Berg while being a student under Schoenberg eventually culminated in this sonata; while considered to be his "graduating composition", it is one of the most formidable initial works ever written by any composer (Lauder, 1986)

This sonata consists of a single movement centered in the key of B minor, but Berg makes frequent use of chromaticism, whole-tone scales, and wandering key centers, giving the tonality a very unstable feel. The piece is in the typical sonata form, with an Exposition, Development and Recapitulation, but the composition also relies heavily on Arnold Schoenberg's idea of developing variation, a method to ensure the unity of a piece of music by deriving all aspects of a composition from a single idea.

Schoenberg stated that the unity of a piece is dependent on all aspects of the composition being derived from a single basic idea. Berg would then pass this idea down to one of his students, Theodor Adorno, who in turn stated: "The main principle he conveyed was that of variation: everything was supposed to develop out of something else and yet be intrinsically different". The Sonata is a striking example of the execution of this idea — the whole composition can be derived from the opening quartal gesture and from the opening leitmotif.