Sonata in Bb minor

A hommage to Chopin (specifically his second piano sonata). Acrylic on canvas.

From Nohant, during the Summer of 1839, Chopin wrote to Robert Schumann:

I am composing here a Sonata in Bb minor, in which will be the Funeral March which you have already. There is an Allegro, then a Scherzo in Eb minor, the March, and a short Finale of about three pages. The left hand, unisono, with the right hand are gossiping after the March.

Of this Sonata, Schumann was later to write:

"Chopin has simply bound together four of his wildest children, to smuggle them under this name - Sonata - into a place which they could not else have penetrated."


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