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Alban Berg

Sonatenentwürfe

c. 1908–1909

Total duration: 19' 30"

All of these sonata movements are incomplete. The final five movements were numbered by Berg himself.

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1. C minor

Duration: 0' 30"

Difficulty: 2

Sonatenentwürfe; 1. C minor

2. Clavierstück in F minor

Duration: 2'

Difficulty: 3

Sonatenentwürfe; 2. Clavierstück in F minor

3. (1.) D minor

Duration: 0' 30"

Difficulty: 2

Sonatenentwürfe; 3. (1.) D minor

4. (2.) D minor

Duration: 0' 30"

Difficulty: 3

Sonatenentwürfe; 4. (2.) D minor

5. (3.) E-flat major (first version)

Duration: 1'

Difficulty: 3

Sonatenentwürfe; 5. (3.) E-flat major (first version)

5. (3.) E-flat major (second version)

Duration: 0' 30"

Difficulty: 3.5

Sonatenentwürfe; 5. (3.) E-flat major (second version)

5c. (3.) E-flat major (third version)

This fragment comprises the beginning of an exposition (to bar 32), followed by two different continuations of the exposition (to bar 47 and 54). The difficulty and duration given here correspond to the last version.

Duration: 3'

Difficulty: 3.5

Sonatenentwürfe; 5. (3.) E-flat major (third version)

6. (4.) D minor

This fragment comprises the beginning of an exposition (to bar 20), followed by two different continuations of the exposition (to bar 35 and 33); the second of these has two further continuations (to bar 45 and 47). The difficulty and duration given here correspond to the last version.

Berg later used material from this fragment in the intermezzo of the third act of his opera Wozzeck (op. 7).

Duration: 2' 30"

Difficulty: 3.5

Sonatenentwürfe; 6. (4.) D minor

7. (5.) G minor

This fragment comprises a complete exposition (to bar 51/52), followed by three different fragments of the development (to bar 70, 68 and 89). The difficulty and duration given here correspond to the last version.

Duration: 9'

Difficulty: 3.5

Sonatenentwürfe; 7. (5.) G minor

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