Rosner - Piano Sonata No. 1, op. 25

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I wrote my first piano sonata as I approached my 18th birthday. My fascination with major/minor effects is clear—and one might say a little bald as presented in the first movement. It moves largely in something of an arrogant jaunt, but there are both a few more mellow moments and on the other hand a very biggestured two-strand slow peroration at the end. Those who are reminded by that ending of the pre-glacier brass writing that precedes the organ solo in the third movement of Vaughan Williams’s Antarctic Symphony are probably correct. The second movement attempts the serious gestured lento of romantic and neo-romantic music. The third movement is an up-tempo rondo—considerably brighter than the rest. The theme, with many off-the-beat harmonies, has a prior source. As a college student I was asked to write incidental music for a production of Cycle of Spring of Rabindranath Tagore. This was in 1962 and already many felt that using Western music when music of India and the orient was getting some exposure was an error. Further, the drama faculty made an adaptation of the play—likely also miscalculated. Weren’t American college theatre audiences ready for it in a simply translated form from the Bengali original? Anyway, I took the music I wrote for it and made a tone poem for orchestra which has never been performed—but one theme somehow never got into that piece. Thus I used it for the finale of the first sonata. A small chorus of boys sports around to the words “We are out...on…our…way—we’re not afraid of…a-ny-thing—we are out…on our way…We have no coins to weigh us down.” The premiere performance was given by my dear friend Jonathan Dzik in 1965. — Arnold Rosner
Allegro molto e marcato ( = 180) Piano Sonata No. 1 1. 3 Arnold Rosner Opus 25 (1963) 4 8 13 17 22 Copyright © 2015 The Estate of Arnold Rosner. www.arnoldrosnermusic.com
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Page 6 and 7: 4 26 poco a poco 31 36 41 46 51 ROS
Page 8 and 9: 6 86 91 legato 95 99 102 3 3 3 3 3
Page 10 and 11: 8 127 132 138 vigoroso e cresc. 143
Page 12 and 13: 10 168 172 3 3 177 182 187 192 ROSN
Page 14 and 15: 12 2. Largo ( = 32) dolce 5 poco 3
Page 16 and 17: 14 18 trem. trem. 21 22 24 ROSNER:
Page 18 and 19: 16 43 3 3 46 sub. Duration: c. 5 mi
Page 20 and 21: 18 31 34 37 41 44 ROSNER: Piano Son
Page 22 and 23: 20 59 63 67 71 pesante 75 molto , c
Page 24 and 25: 22 105 cresc. poco a poco (cresc.)
Page 26: 24 145 148 152 156 Duration: c. 5 m

Rosner - Piano Sonata No. 1, op. 25

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