Chaminade’s music reflects the mature Romantic style of the period with her unique sensitivity. Although her music has been neglected for years, she had enjoyed considerable success as a pianist and composer both in Europe and in the United States. Furthermore, most of her compositions were published during her lifetime, thanks to her husband and a music publisher, Louis-Mathieu Carbonel. This large-scale work does not open with a typical sonata-allegro form. Instead, the first movement poses an enigmatic structure close to an arch form that is mirrored around the development section, in which the dramatic transformations of the first theme prevail. After the lengthy and dense second movement, the Sonata ends with a virtuosic finale. The last movement was published previously as a part of Six Etudes de Concert, Op. 35 (1886).
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Cécile Chaminade
Piano Sonata in c minor, I: Allegro Appassionato Play
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Sonata in C minor, Op. 21 by Cécile Chaminade
Chaminade’s music reflects the mature Romantic style of the period with her unique sensitivity. Although her music has been neglected for years, she had enjoyed considerable success as a pianist and composer both in Europe and in the United States. Furthermore, most of her compositions were published during her lifetime, thanks to her husband and a music publisher, Louis-Mathieu Carbonel. This large-scale work does not open with a typical sonata-allegro form. Instead, the first movement poses an enigmatic structure close to an arch form that is mirrored around the development section, in which the dramatic transformations of the first theme prevail. After the lengthy and dense second movement, the Sonata ends with a virtuosic finale. The last movement was published previously as a part of Six Etudes de Concert, Op. 35 (1886).
-Hyunjung Rachel Chung
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