Here are two vast and diametrically opposed sonatas composed a few months apart, in 1825. The 'First', in A minor, is dominated by the anxiety, harshness and vehemence of the discourse, the vigour of the rhythms. It foreshadows the dark ideas of Schumann's 'Kreisleriana'. And yet, in some of the variations of the slow movement, we seem to be at the heart of a Viennese salon with couples of dancers swirling around.
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