Filippo Gorini, Piano
Performers
Filippo Gorini, Piano
Program
BERG Piano Sonata, Op. 1
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664
BEETHOVEN Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120
Encore:
SCHUBERT Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission.Salon Encores
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BERG Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Composed while Berg was studying composition with Arnold Schoenberg, this short, single-movement piano sonata is both highly compact and richly expressive. According to a fellow pupil, Berg set out to write a traditional multi-movement sonata, but decided he had said all he needed to say in one movement.
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664
The same qualities that made Schubert a great song composer—his seemingly bottomless stockpile of melody, his ability to invest the simplest of musical phrases with dramatic significance, his quicksilver changes of keys and moods—are equally apparent in his solo piano music.
BEETHOVEN Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120
In 1823, Anton Diabelli wrote a 32-bar waltz in C major and commissioned variations from a who’s who of Austrian composers. Among those who contributed to his “patriotic” anthology were Schubert, Hummel, Czerny, and Moscheles. Beethoven, however, as usual went his own way, composing a set of dazzlingly inventive variations on Diabelli’s tune that is one of the pinnacles of the piano repertoire.