The Pianoforte Sonata: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Pianoforte Sonata, credited to John South Shedlock, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Pianoforte Sonata by John South Shedlock. Read in English by Jordan Watts John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at the time to be the earliest keyboard sonata, up the present day. Along the way, works by Emanuel Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt and others are looked at, along with many musical extracts. - Summary by Jordan

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Pianoforte Sonata
• Author credits: John South Shedlock
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 6:26:22

Catalogue topics

• music
• chopin
• Bach
• Mozart
• Beethoven
• Haydn
• Schubert
• piano

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:30
2. 01 - Introductory — 1:03:38
3. 02 - Johann Kuhnau — 49:59
4. 03 - Bernardo Pasquini: A Contemporary of J. Kuhnau — 17:53
5. 04 - Emanuel Bach and some of his Contemporaries — 43:35
6. 05 - Haydn and Mozart — 30:34
7. 06 - Predecessors of Beethoven — 46:16
8. 07 - Ludwig van Beethoven — 53:24
9. 08 - Two Contemporaries of Beethoven — 25:12
10. 09 - Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, and Liszt — 21:17
11. 10 - The Sonata in England — 23:25
12. 11 - Modern Sonatas, Duet Sonatas, Sonatinas, etc. — 8:39

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