Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume I

By Joseph Haydn

The towering composer who perfected the early symphonic form and invented the modern string quartet also left his indelible mark on the sonata. During 50 years of inspired creative effort, Haydn experimented constantly with the sonata form, adding a clear thematic structure to the tonal design inherited from earlier composers.
This comprehensive new playing edition contains 52 sonatas by the master — a treasury of keyboard compositions in which echoes of the baroque and harbingers of romanticism blend with the lucidity and elegance of 18th-century classicism. Here is a remarkably convenient and reliable presentation of more than 50 of Haydn's efforts in the form, from the early divertimento-like sonatas to the masterworks of the later years, culminating in the sublime Sonata No. 52 in E-flat Major.
Reprinted in two volumes from an authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition, the sonatas are arranged in a chronological sequence based on recent scholarship. Extremely clear and readable, with ample space for notes, this Dover edition is a must for serious pianists, students, and music lovers in general. It is an excellent, inexpensive means to study and savor the inventive daring, freedom, and mastery that Haydn brought to the piano sonata.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Feb 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9780486311883

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Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Volume 1 (Hoboken Nos.1-29)

Joseph Haydn

Copyright C 1984 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

This Dover edition in two volumes, first published in 1984, contains all the music from the three volumes comprising Serie 14: Klavierwerke [1918] of the complete-works edition Joseph Haydns Werke. Erste kritisch durchgesehene Gesamtausgabe, published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1907 ff. The table of contents and Publisher’s Note have been prepared specially for the present edition; see the Publisher’s Note for further bibliographical information.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Haydn, Joseph, 1732–1809.

[Sonatas, piano]

Complete piano sonatas.

Reprint: Originally published: Leipzig : Breitkopf & Härtel. 1918 (Joseph Haydns Werke. Erste kritisch durchgesehene Gesamtausgabe, Serie 14: Klavierwerke / edited by Karl Päsler).

Contents: v. 1. Hoboken nos. 1-29—v. 2. Hoboken nos. 30-52.

1. Sonatas (Piano) 1. Päsler, Karl.

M23.H41P33 1984

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9780486311883

Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE

The musical text of the 52 sonatas included in this two-volume Dover edition is reprinted, without abridgment or change of sequence, from the three volumes comprising Serie 14: Klavierwerke, n.d. [actually 1918; edited by Karl Päsler], of the Breitkopf & Härtel (Leipzig) Haydn complete-works edition

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