Piano Sonata (Stravinsky)
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The Piano Sonata, or Sonata for Piano,[1] or in its original French form, Sonate pour piano,[2] is a 1924 piano sonata by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky.
Stravinsky composed this sonata when he was in Biarritz and Nice in the summer of 1924. He finished it on 21 October that year.[3] According to Robert Cummings at AllMusic, it was first performed by the composer at the Donaueschingen Festival on 26 July 1925.[4] According to musicologist Matthew Werley, it was premiered by Felix Petyrek.[5] It was eventually edited by Albert Spalding and published by Boosey & Hawkes in 1925. It is dedicated to the Princess Edmond de Polignac, Winnaretta Singer.[6]
