Essays Before a Sonata (Ives, Charles)

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Schissel (2011/3/15)

Publisher. Info. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1920.
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Work Title Essays Before a Sonata
Alternative. Title
Composer Ives, Charles
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. ICI 2
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 6
First Publication. 1920 by New York: The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright Information Possibly public domain in EU and elsewhere.
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Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Early 20th century
Piece Style Early 20th century
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  • "Written primarily as a preface or reason for the second pianoforte sonata-Concord, Mass., 1845" - from the description at archive.org.
  • (Would tag as autobiographies but seems not quite on-target. Preface? - Schissel)
  • Though it had a definite connection to the second piano sonata, Grove Music describes this as "his most detailed statement of his aesthetics", so it has a far more general subject matter. Aesthetics doesn't easily fall into the music theory category, so I've tagged it as music history. (Steltz)