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Complete Sonatas for Keyboard II: Sonatas 11-23
Dusek, Frantisek Xaver
Dusek Complete Sonatas for Keyboard II: Sonatas 11-23
The Czech composer František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799) was a leading figure in Prague’s music life in the latter half of the 18th century. He was an outstanding pianist, composer and piano teacher whose pupils included Leopold Koželuch.
Now all of Dušek’s 23 sonatas, many of which have until now been available only in old prints or manuscripts, are appearing in two volumes. The editor, Vojtech Spurný, has carefully collected and compared archival sources strewn throughout Europe. The sonatas, arranged in chronological order by date of publication, now appear for the first time in critical editions. They are easy to play, some most probably having been written for teaching purposes.
Volume II contains sonatas left unpublished in Dušek’s lifetime and preserved in manuscript form. Three of them appear here for the first time.
- First complete critical edition of Dušek’s sonatas
- Previously hard to reach repertoire
- Trilingual Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng)
- Easy to moderate difficulty
Contents
- Sonata XI [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XII [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XIII [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XIV [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XV [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XVI [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XVII [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XVIII [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XIX [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XX [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XXI [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XXII [Dušek, František Xaver]
- Sonata XXIII [Dušek, František Xaver]