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Haydn, Franz Joseph : Sonate für Klavier Nr.58 Mov.2 Rondo (Presto)

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Music ID : 32248
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:sonata
Total Playing Time:3 min 30 sec
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : Saitoh, Noriko

Last Updated: February 9, 2020
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

The second movement, Presto, is in 2/4 time and, as explicitly stated "Rondo," is in rondo form. Like the first movement, it is written in C major. In contrast to the first movement, it is full of lively character and functions as a perpetuum mobile. While the rondo theme employs the technique of the left hand accompanying the right-hand melody, the first subordinate theme (from m. 13) suggests a dialogue between the left and right hands. Additionally, there is a subordinate theme in unison between the left and right hands (from m. 64). In the concluding section of this movement, the movement closes by presenting the opening part of the rondo theme, first in the right hand, then in the left.

Writer: Saitoh, Noriko