Piano Sonata No. 1 (Scriabin)
The Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 6 is the Russian composer and pianist Alexander Scriabin ( 1872-1915 ). It reflects - especially designed as a funeral march in the finale - his fear, his right hand no longer be able to use pianistic.
Formation
Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 6 was created in summer 1892. However, it is not Scriabin's first contribution to this genre, was preceded by two early works in G-sharp minor and E flat minor (both without opus number ). Scriabin had previously suffered a lengthy injury to his right hand, probably tendonitis through excessive piano practice. Scriabin was afraid encouraged by doctors pessimistic, not to his career has just begun as a piano virtuoso continue. The reference to his composed in this period, Piano Sonata ( 1894, he wrote also 2 Pieces for the Left Hand, Op 9 ) presented Scriabin in 1906 even in an autobiographical note here, in which he wrote: [ ... ] rumble against fate and against God. Composition of the First Sonata with the Funeral March.
Characterization
The Sonata with a playing time of about 20 minutes in four movements:
- I. Allegro con fuoco
- II Adagio
- III. Presto
- IV Funebre
The first sentence follows the classical sonata form. The elegiac second movement is in three parts ( ABA structure ). The third movement is a rondo with scherzo, the 4th is a slow funeral march dar. In extreme extension of the dynamics is listed an overridden with quasi niente passage in piano four-fold in the last sentence.
The four movements have a close thematic link. In the first theme of the first movement sounds the tone sequence fg- as, which also appears in the third set and characterizes the theme of the final funeral march. At the end of the third set is the second theme of the first movement reappears. Stylistically, the Sonata influences of Liszt and Chopin ( the funeral march is clearly reminiscent of the B flat minor Sonata ), the third sentence reminded, however, in places, to Brahms.
The Piano Sonata No. 1 is the first work of Scriabin, which was published by the influential publisher and music patron Belyayev. She brought the composer a fee of 400 rubles a.
Scriabin played his first piano sonata only one time completely to the public in February 1894 in St. Petersburg ( the funeral march he played but occasionally isolated ), which could be due to self-doubt or traumatic memories of the related crisis.