Iain Quinn's The Genesis and Development of an English Organ Sonata PDF

By Iain Quinn

ISBN-10: 1138203823

ISBN-13: 9781138203822

This quantity considers the impacts and improvement of the English organ sonata culture that begun within the 1850s with compositions by way of W. T. most sensible and William Spark. With the growth of the instrument’s functions got here a chance for organist-composers to contemplate the repertoire anew with many elements reinforcing a wish to raise the literature to new heights. This learn starts by way of interpreting the legacy of the keyboard sonata in Britain and particularly the pedagogical lineage that was once to be visible via Mendelssohn and eventually the early organ sonatas. The abiding impact of William Crotch’s lectures are studied to light up how a tradition of conservatism emboldened the organist-composers in the direction of compositions that have been noticeable to symbolize the beliefs of the Classical period yet in a latest vein. The veneration of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven is then tested as composers wrote "portfolio" sonatas, each one with a flow in a contrasting type to show their compositional prowess whereas offering repertoire for the beginner and gourmand alike. eventually the quantity considers how the British organist-composers who studied on the Leipzig Conservatorium had an immediate referring to the furtherance of an organ tradition at domestic that during flip set the floor for the seminal paintings within the style, Elgar’s Sonata of 1895.

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