Hello guys, I wanted to ask you for some advice.... I attend the Conservatory under the new regulations and next year I will have to perform the 6 preludes and fugues from Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier + a sonata of my choice among those by Clementi, Mozart, Haydn, or C.P.E. Bach. Since I will already have to put most of my efforts into the Preludes and Fugues.... I wanted to choose a feasible sonata, I don't say easy, but one that would allow me to focus more on Bach. Many have recommended Clementi to me, but unfortunately, not all 110 sonatas written by him are on YouTube (if it were up to me, I would listen to them all), so I wanted to ask you.......In your opinion, which are Clementi's most feasible sonatas? Obviously, sonatinas are excluded; we are talking about Sonatas.
I would be more inclined towards Mozart. Either the K330 or one of the two in F major. Don't let those by Clementi fool you into thinking they are easier.....
Clementi Op. 40 n.2, Mozart Sonata K280 in F major, beautiful, short and sparkling, or even Haydn is to be rediscovered!
And then.. Clementi might have more notes to "study" than the others but don't think that makes it harder, on the contrary..
Besides, they are concert sonatas just as much as Mozart and Haydn; I've never come across CPE Bach in a piano recital, but now I'm going to go explore
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pianothor wrote:
19 hours ago, pianothor said:
Clementi Op. 40 no.2, Mozart Sonata K280 in F major, beautiful, short and sparkling, or even Haydn is worth rediscovering!
Besides.. Clementi might have more notes to "study" than others but don't think that makes it harder, on the contrary..
Furthermore they are concert sonatas just as much as Mozart and Haydn; I have never come across CPE Bach in a piano recital but now I will go and have a look
Thank you all for the replies, the sonata op. 25 no.5 is very beautiful and Horowitz's interpretation is divine, also the 40 no.2 is beautiful, it almost sounds like Romanticism; it's incredible to think they were written before 1800 or thereabouts. I am also considering Haydn. I found an old volume of the Curci edition with 12 sonatas in the "attic". There is one, HOB 13 in E major, that particularly struck me; it is defined as a "divertimento". Now, excuse my ignorance, are the sonatas defined as "divertimenti" true sonatas or do they differ in some way from actual sonatas? To me, listening to it and taking a fleeting glance at the score, it seems like a true sonata.
Haydn defined both sonatas and early symphonies as divertimenti, I believe before the '70s... so I assume it is one of the first sonatas... Regarding Haydn, try to take a look at the sonata in D major or E-flat major... I don't remember the cataloging correctly right now, though...
Regarding Mozart, K. 330 or 281... Clementi, there is also a more youthful sonata like Op. 7 No. 1 or Op. 12 No. 1 (if you are interested, there is a recording by Michelangeli, although not very faithful to the score) Bach... here you hit my repertoire exactly ahahaha, plenty of sonatas from those 'Kenner und Liebhaber' to the Prussian sonatas... it's up to you... my repertoire ranges from Frescobaldi to Mozart but with various focuses, especially on the entire Bach family, Couperin, Scarlatti, Mozart.
