The Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448 is a work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1781, when he was 25. It is written in strict sonata-allegro form, with three movements. The sonata was composed for a performance he would give with fellow pianist Josephine von Aurnhammer. Mozart composed this in the galant style, with interlocking melodies and simultaneous cadences. This is one of his few compositions written for two pianos. This sonata was also used in the scientific study that tested the theory of the Mozart effect, suggesting that classical music increases brain activity more positively than other kinds of music.
Description
The sonata is written in three movements,
Allegro con spirito
Andante in G major
Molto Allegro.
Allegro con spirito
The first movement begins in D major, and sets the tonal center with a strong introduction. The two pianos divide the main melody for the exposition, and when the theme is presented both play it simultaneously. Mozart spends little time in the development introducing a new theme unlike most sonata forms, and begins the recapitulation, repeating the first theme.
The Sonata for Two Pianos is a work by Germaine Tailleferre written in 1974 for the American two-piano team Gold and Fizdale, to whom it is dedicated. The work was published in 1999 by the French music publisher Musik Fabrik.
The work is in three movements: an opening Toccata-like allegretto, a slower andantino which uses a theme clearly inspired by the Pavane in Tailleferre's 1929 ballet "La Nouvelle Cythère" and a final brilliant allegro which uses polytonality to create a playful atmosphere which ends abruptly.
The work was probably never performed by Gold and Fizdale, due to their retirement from the concert stage because of Arthur Gold's problems with his hands.
Recordings
Clinton-Narboni Duo "Germaine Tailleferre - Music for Two Pianos and Piano Four-Hands", Elan Recordings (1997)
Sonata for Two Pianos (1950–51), also called simply Opus 1 or Nummer 1, is a chamber-music work by Belgian composer Karel Goeyvaerts, and a seminal work in the early history of European serialism.
History
Goeyvaerts composed the Sonata during the winter of 1950–51, and brought the score with him when he attended the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in the Summer of 1951. There he met Karlheinz Stockhausen, five years his junior and at the time and a student in his last year at the Cologne Conservatory. Goeyvaert's and Stockhausen's analysis and performance of the second movement of the Sonata in Theodor W. Adorno's composition seminar had considerable significance for those young composers eager to develop serial thinking. The influence of the Sonata is also evident in Stockhausen's early serial compositions (Delaere 2001), particularly Kreuzspiel, which Stockhausen began composing on his way home from Darmstadt and finished on 4 November 1951 (Sabbe 1981, 18–19). Adorno, however, did not appreciate the qualities of the work's second movement, because he could not find any motivic coherence in it. When Goeyvaerts found it difficult to defend himself in German (a language in which he was not fluent), Stockhausen stood up for his friend, telling Adorno, "you are looking for a chicken in an abstract painting" (Stockhausen 1989, 36).
Sonata for Two Pianos is a composition by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, premiered in 1944 by Richard Johnson and Nadia Boulanger. First conceived as a solo work, Stravinsky needed to write it for four hands to voice all four melodic lines clearly. It is considered one of Stravinsky's most important compositions for two solo pianos, together with Concerto for Two Pianos.
Structure
The sonata is in three movements, though one CD recording indexes the theme and four variations of the second movement separately. However, it is in only three movements.
Germaine Tailleferre: Sonata per 2 pianoforti (1974)
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Sonata per 2 pianoforti (1974).
I. Allegro
II. Andantino [02:05]
III. Allegro [05:20]
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianoforti
Cover image: painting by André Derain.
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published: 07 Oct 2013
Tailleferre, Sonata for Two Pianos played by Peter Noke and Julian Hellaby
Sonata for Two Pianos - Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983)
i) Allegretto ii) Andantino iii) Allegro
Germaine Tailleferre, one of the lesser-known members of 'Les Six', wrote her two-piano sonata in 1974 for the American duo Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, to whom the work is dedicated. It is a short, good-humoured piece, in particular betraying the influence of Stravinsky in the bubbly outer movements.
Movements one and two were filmed at an afternoon concert in Oxfordshire, movement three at a lunchtime concert in Coventry.
published: 18 Feb 2016
Germaine Tailleferre - Toccata pour deux pianos
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianos
Music from the publisher: http://www.classicalmusicnow.com/tailleferre.htm
It appears that the year of composition I put at the beginning of the video was a grave mistake, as it was composed in 1957. My bad.
published: 09 Apr 2019
Germaine Tailleferre - Sonate pour 2 pianos
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Sonate pour 2 pianos
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni
published: 23 May 2016
Tailleferre - Jeux de plein air - Martin Smith and Adelheid Lechler (2 pianos)
I. La tirelitentaine
II. Cache-cache mitoula
Featured paintings used with kind permission of the artist, Genia Ruland
Live recording used by kind permission of the producer, Günter Appenheimer
More piano duo videos at http://www.martin-smith.de/index.php?id=75&L=2
and Martin Smith videos at https://www.renatewieland.de/audiovisuelles/
published: 05 Oct 2020
Tailleferre: 2 Valses for 2 pianos
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Two Waltzes, for two pianos
I. Valse lent 0:00
II. Valse brillante 1:17
Duo Powers-de la Torre
Lark Powers & Ricardo de la Torre, pianos
Live performance, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington
published: 09 Aug 2020
Germaine Tailleferre - Intermezzo pour 2 pianos
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Intermezzo pour 2 pianos
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, piano
published: 01 Feb 2016
Odyssey Chamber Music Series S16: Tailleferre: Intermezzo for 2 pianos Peter Miyamoto, Ayako Tsuruta
Odyssey Chamber Music Series presents
Season 16
Women Composers
April 26, 2020 in Columbia, Missouri
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Intermezzo, for two pianos
Ayako Tsuruta, Piano I
Peter Miyamoto, Piano II
published: 26 Apr 2022
Valse Brillante from Germaine Tailleferre's Deux Valses
2019 NFMC Ellis Duo winners: Colleen Carney and Melissa Terrall performing Valse Brillante from Germaine Tailleferre's Deux Valses. They received $20,000 and a concert contract for 2 years.
published: 22 Oct 2019
Sonata for two pianos
Written about 1999 and recently retrieved off a bad floppy disk, I seem to remember that I wrote this as a slow movement for a concerto for two pianos I was planning. Like Bach's double clavier concerto, the orchestra is silent
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Sonata per 2 pianoforti (1974).
I. Allegro
II. Andantino [02:05]
III. Allegro [05:20]
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianofo...
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Sonata per 2 pianoforti (1974).
I. Allegro
II. Andantino [02:05]
III. Allegro [05:20]
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianoforti
Cover image: painting by André Derain.
***
The music published in our channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within a program shared to study classic educational music of the 1900's (mostly Italian) which involves thousands of people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform us immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be our care to remove immediately the video accordingly.
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Sonata per 2 pianoforti (1974).
I. Allegro
II. Andantino [02:05]
III. Allegro [05:20]
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianoforti
Cover image: painting by André Derain.
***
The music published in our channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within a program shared to study classic educational music of the 1900's (mostly Italian) which involves thousands of people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform us immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be our care to remove immediately the video accordingly.
Sonata for Two Pianos - Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983)
i) Allegretto ii) Andantino iii) Allegro
Germaine Tailleferre, one of the lesser-known members of '...
Sonata for Two Pianos - Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983)
i) Allegretto ii) Andantino iii) Allegro
Germaine Tailleferre, one of the lesser-known members of 'Les Six', wrote her two-piano sonata in 1974 for the American duo Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, to whom the work is dedicated. It is a short, good-humoured piece, in particular betraying the influence of Stravinsky in the bubbly outer movements.
Movements one and two were filmed at an afternoon concert in Oxfordshire, movement three at a lunchtime concert in Coventry.
Sonata for Two Pianos - Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983)
i) Allegretto ii) Andantino iii) Allegro
Germaine Tailleferre, one of the lesser-known members of 'Les Six', wrote her two-piano sonata in 1974 for the American duo Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, to whom the work is dedicated. It is a short, good-humoured piece, in particular betraying the influence of Stravinsky in the bubbly outer movements.
Movements one and two were filmed at an afternoon concert in Oxfordshire, movement three at a lunchtime concert in Coventry.
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianos
Music from the publisher: http://www.classicalmusicnow.com/tailleferre.htm
It appears that the year of composition I put...
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianos
Music from the publisher: http://www.classicalmusicnow.com/tailleferre.htm
It appears that the year of composition I put at the beginning of the video was a grave mistake, as it was composed in 1957. My bad.
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianos
Music from the publisher: http://www.classicalmusicnow.com/tailleferre.htm
It appears that the year of composition I put at the beginning of the video was a grave mistake, as it was composed in 1957. My bad.
I. La tirelitentaine
II. Cache-cache mitoula
Featured paintings used with kind permission of the artist, Genia Ruland
Live recording used by kind permission of ...
I. La tirelitentaine
II. Cache-cache mitoula
Featured paintings used with kind permission of the artist, Genia Ruland
Live recording used by kind permission of the producer, Günter Appenheimer
More piano duo videos at http://www.martin-smith.de/index.php?id=75&L=2
and Martin Smith videos at https://www.renatewieland.de/audiovisuelles/
I. La tirelitentaine
II. Cache-cache mitoula
Featured paintings used with kind permission of the artist, Genia Ruland
Live recording used by kind permission of the producer, Günter Appenheimer
More piano duo videos at http://www.martin-smith.de/index.php?id=75&L=2
and Martin Smith videos at https://www.renatewieland.de/audiovisuelles/
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Two Waltzes, for two pianos
I. Valse lent 0:00
II. Valse brillante 1:17
Duo Powers-de la Torre
Lark Powers & Ricardo de la To...
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Two Waltzes, for two pianos
I. Valse lent 0:00
II. Valse brillante 1:17
Duo Powers-de la Torre
Lark Powers & Ricardo de la Torre, pianos
Live performance, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Two Waltzes, for two pianos
I. Valse lent 0:00
II. Valse brillante 1:17
Duo Powers-de la Torre
Lark Powers & Ricardo de la Torre, pianos
Live performance, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington
Odyssey Chamber Music Series presents
Season 16
Women Composers
April 26, 2020 in Columbia, Missouri
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Intermezzo, for two piano...
Odyssey Chamber Music Series presents
Season 16
Women Composers
April 26, 2020 in Columbia, Missouri
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Intermezzo, for two pianos
Ayako Tsuruta, Piano I
Peter Miyamoto, Piano II
Odyssey Chamber Music Series presents
Season 16
Women Composers
April 26, 2020 in Columbia, Missouri
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Intermezzo, for two pianos
Ayako Tsuruta, Piano I
Peter Miyamoto, Piano II
2019 NFMC Ellis Duo winners: Colleen Carney and Melissa Terrall performing Valse Brillante from Germaine Tailleferre's Deux Valses. They received $20,000 and a...
2019 NFMC Ellis Duo winners: Colleen Carney and Melissa Terrall performing Valse Brillante from Germaine Tailleferre's Deux Valses. They received $20,000 and a concert contract for 2 years.
2019 NFMC Ellis Duo winners: Colleen Carney and Melissa Terrall performing Valse Brillante from Germaine Tailleferre's Deux Valses. They received $20,000 and a concert contract for 2 years.
Written about 1999 and recently retrieved off a bad floppy disk, I seem to remember that I wrote this as a slow movement for a concerto for two pianos I was pla...
Written about 1999 and recently retrieved off a bad floppy disk, I seem to remember that I wrote this as a slow movement for a concerto for two pianos I was planning. Like Bach's double clavier concerto, the orchestra is silent
Written about 1999 and recently retrieved off a bad floppy disk, I seem to remember that I wrote this as a slow movement for a concerto for two pianos I was planning. Like Bach's double clavier concerto, the orchestra is silent
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Sonata per 2 pianoforti (1974).
I. Allegro
II. Andantino [02:05]
III. Allegro [05:20]
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianoforti
Cover image: painting by André Derain.
***
The music published in our channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within a program shared to study classic educational music of the 1900's (mostly Italian) which involves thousands of people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform us immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be our care to remove immediately the video accordingly.
Sonata for Two Pianos - Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983)
i) Allegretto ii) Andantino iii) Allegro
Germaine Tailleferre, one of the lesser-known members of 'Les Six', wrote her two-piano sonata in 1974 for the American duo Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, to whom the work is dedicated. It is a short, good-humoured piece, in particular betraying the influence of Stravinsky in the bubbly outer movements.
Movements one and two were filmed at an afternoon concert in Oxfordshire, movement three at a lunchtime concert in Coventry.
Marc Clinton & Nicole Carboni, pianos
Music from the publisher: http://www.classicalmusicnow.com/tailleferre.htm
It appears that the year of composition I put at the beginning of the video was a grave mistake, as it was composed in 1957. My bad.
I. La tirelitentaine
II. Cache-cache mitoula
Featured paintings used with kind permission of the artist, Genia Ruland
Live recording used by kind permission of the producer, Günter Appenheimer
More piano duo videos at http://www.martin-smith.de/index.php?id=75&L=2
and Martin Smith videos at https://www.renatewieland.de/audiovisuelles/
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): Two Waltzes, for two pianos
I. Valse lent 0:00
II. Valse brillante 1:17
Duo Powers-de la Torre
Lark Powers & Ricardo de la Torre, pianos
Live performance, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington
Odyssey Chamber Music Series presents
Season 16
Women Composers
April 26, 2020 in Columbia, Missouri
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)
Intermezzo, for two pianos
Ayako Tsuruta, Piano I
Peter Miyamoto, Piano II
2019 NFMC Ellis Duo winners: Colleen Carney and Melissa Terrall performing Valse Brillante from Germaine Tailleferre's Deux Valses. They received $20,000 and a concert contract for 2 years.
Written about 1999 and recently retrieved off a bad floppy disk, I seem to remember that I wrote this as a slow movement for a concerto for two pianos I was planning. Like Bach's double clavier concerto, the orchestra is silent
The Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448 is a work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1781, when he was 25. It is written in strict sonata-allegro form, with three movements. The sonata was composed for a performance he would give with fellow pianist Josephine von Aurnhammer. Mozart composed this in the galant style, with interlocking melodies and simultaneous cadences. This is one of his few compositions written for two pianos. This sonata was also used in the scientific study that tested the theory of the Mozart effect, suggesting that classical music increases brain activity more positively than other kinds of music.
Description
The sonata is written in three movements,
Allegro con spirito
Andante in G major
Molto Allegro.
Allegro con spirito
The first movement begins in D major, and sets the tonal center with a strong introduction. The two pianos divide the main melody for the exposition, and when the theme is presented both play it simultaneously. Mozart spends little time in the development introducing a new theme unlike most sonata forms, and begins the recapitulation, repeating the first theme.