Piano Sonatas (Boulez) - First Piano Sonata

First Piano Sonata

Boulez's First Piano Sonata, completed in 1946, has two movements. It was his first twelve-tone serial work (together with his Sonatine for flute and piano), and he originally intended to dedicate it to René Leibowitz, but their friendship ended when Leibowitz tried to make "corrections" to the score (Peyser 1999,, quoted without a page reference in Ruch 2004). In composing this, Boulez took great inspiration from Arnold Schönberg's Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11.

  1. "Lent - Beaucoup plus allant" (slow - moving along a lot more)
  2. "Assez large - Rapide" (quite broad - rapid)

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