The Keyboard Sonata Through History

The piano was invented around 1700 by Bartolomeo Christofori, an employee of the Medicis. Before that the harpsichord was the most popular keyboard instrument. Today we have pianos that plays themselves as well as electronic synthesizers that outdo the great old church organs. Today’s standard piano has 88 keys of black and white.

Scarlatti Over 500 sonatas in one movement

Cimarosa He wrote 88. Pick one.

Mozart Sonata in C major, Sonata in A minor

Haydn Sonata Nos. 61 and 62

Beethoven Sonata No. 8 “Pathetique,” Sonata

No. 14 “Moonlight”

Schubert Sonata No. 18 in G major “Fantasie”

Chopin Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor “Funeral

March”

Liszt Sonata in B minor

Brahms Sonata No. 3 in F minor

Grieg Sonata in E minor

Scriabin Sonata No. 2, No. 9 “Black Mass”

Tchaikovsky Grand Sonata in G

Rachmaninov Sonata No. 1 and No. 2

Stravinsky Sonata (1924)

Prokofiev Sonata No. 3 in A minor, No. 7

Berg Sonata No. 1

Boulez Sonata No. 1