Sonata in C Major op 7 Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Maria Hester Park, née Reynolds (1760-1813), was one of many lady composers active in the XVIII century (together, for example, with Maria Frances Beardmore, née Parke) and who have left us some attractive compositions, notably for the piano.

She must have met Haydn during his trips to London and she maintained correspondence with him, receiving and sending music to him.

Interestingly, even though too young to have met Mozart when he visited in 1764-1765, the present sonata owes much more to him than to her correspondent. At some points she even seems to copy a bar or two from some of Mozart's middle period piano sonate.

Some of Park's works have been published in the USA. My source for the present sonata is, however, the original edition. I have mostly kept faithful to the original, but found a great number of errors and omissions, such as the missing upbeat at the beginning of the development of the first movement, as well as a great number of missing accidentals and even some wrong notes. Most of these I have corrected without further notice. Other, less obvious corrections, such as missing dynamics, have been noted.

Following bar 33 of the 1st movement exposition and the corresponding bar in the recapitulation, it would seem a cadenza could be added, though I have found no evidence for this way of prolonging what would seem to be an otherwise extremely short second subject.