Sapp: Piano Sonatas I–IV

Name: Sapp: Piano Sonatas I–IV
SKU: A090
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Allen Sapp

Piano Sonatas I–IV

Edited by Alan Green

A090 Sapp: Piano Sonatas I–IV

978-1-9872-0765-1 Full Score (2021) 9x12, x + 88 pp.

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Abstract

This volume presents a critical edition of Allen Sapp’s four earliest piano sonatas, the first written at just age nineteen while he was a student of Walter Piston at Harvard in 1941. Piano Sonatas II, III, and IV were completed while Sapp was on sabbatical from Harvard and living in Rome in 1957. The three Roman piano sonatas are remarkable in that they were composed using serial procedures, yet they were intentionally written to have strong tonal centers (especially the third sonata). Irving Fine, who gave the premiere performance of Piano Sonata I, composed an ossia of a passage in the second movement, which is included in the edition.

Contents

Piano Sonata I

I. Andante

II. Allegro

Piano Sonata II

I. Larghetto

II. Allegro molto

III. Andantino

IV. Allegro

Piano Sonata III

I. Allegro molto

II. Adagio

III. Agitato

Piano Sonata IV

I. Decisively

II. Slowly

III. Theme and Variations: Fluently

Bio

Alan Green is Professor and Head of the Ohio State University Music and Dance Library. He is the author of Allen Sapp: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1996), and was executive producer for a CD titled Allen Sapp (Composers Recordings, Inc., 1998, now in the New World Records catalog), which contains three orchestral works performed by the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart.