Sonata
For violin And Piano
by Steven Stucky
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music violin, piano

SKU: PR.144406040

For violin And Piano. Composed by Steven Stucky. Sws each. Premiered by Cho-Liang Lin, violin, and Jon Kimura Parker, piano; La Jolla, CA. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2013. 42+32+16+20 pages. Duration 20 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #144-40604. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.144406040).

ISBN 9781598069112. UPC: 680160621767. 9x12 inches.

In his later years, Steven Stucky revisited traditional forms, including a symphony, opera, piano sonata, and the dramatically ravishing Sonata for Violin and Piano. Stucky describes the first and third movements as the main bulk of the sonata. The first movement alternates calm and lyrical sections with busy music that is sometimes forceful, sometimes playful. The third (Scherzo-Finale) begins skittish and fragmentary before embarking on a fiery allegro (con fuoco) and a slower, wistful melody. Between these larger movements, comes what the composer described as "like a sketch for a slow movement: too short to serve as much more than a linking Interlude, but nevertheless developing a surprising depth of feeling." The sonata was commissioned by the La Jolla Music Society for violinist Cho-Liang Lin who premiered the work with pianist Jon Kimura Parker.