0:00 - Allegro moderato
4:13 - Molto tranquillo
7:33 - Allegro moderato grotesco
In 1923 Schulhoff has made his return back to Prague, where he later became a professor at the conservatory. The first piano sonata (1924) is a unique mixture of the classical genres, jazz and dance rhythms, but at the same time aiming at an expressive simplicity and smaller emphasis on rhythmicity compared to his Small pieces inspired by jazz. It is bound together by the reccuring cluster motif and the bizzare Liszt-sonata G in the bass. The dedicatee of this work is the German novelist Thomas Mann.
Composer - Ervín Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Piano - Jan Panenka
Year of recording - 1974
Recording license provided by the Czech Radio (the license is valid until spring of 2026). Sheet music is public domain.
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