Mosolov - Piano Sonata No. 2; I "Sonata"

First movement of Mosolov's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor Op. 4 (1924).

Alexander Mosolov (1900-1973) was a part of the Soviet Avant-Garde prominent in the 1920s. He was oppressed by the RAPM (Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians) for writing inaccessible and highly pessimistic music; i.e., not conforming to Soviet Realism. By 1929 his compositions were banned and in 1936 he moved to Central Asia to collect folk music. From then until his death, Mosolov abandoned his earlier compositional style and wrote tame often folk-inspired works.

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• mosolov
• roslavets
• scriabin
• shostakovich
• prokofiev

[CodyNelsonMusic]

Much better than the first piano sonata, but still could improve.

[Hexameron]

Improve? This is a masterpiece.

A number of Russian music scholars, Larry Sitsky and Peter Deane Roberts for example, believe Mosolov's piano sonatas are some of the most original works to emerge from the Soviet 1920s.

No one was writing music like this.

[TheFrenziedPianist]

Wait a second...its holloween. Oh my I'm gonna play this piece in my front yard at midnight.

[mirrors1]

@Hexameron There are a huge number of emotions but really in the architecture, not impressionist

[DeliusAlkan]

O.O I feel nothing compared to this musical monument of rough granite! It's trully visional, as most of the works of Post-Scriabinist Russian Avant-Garde Composers prior to 1923...

[pavliygeo]

Потрясні як соната Масолова, так і виконання.

Pavliygeo

[DoodBawks]

I enjoy this very much lol.

[xodn3300]

haha i love his ostinatos, as well as the unique harmonic language though with a hint of prokofiev in some parts. imo this particular work isn't disturbing at all.

[rezmogm]

@TheRealLordRama wow are you really the Lord Rama?

But I do agree with your point. BTW, I find beauty in this piece too.

[rezmogm]

@TheRealLordRama wow are you really the Lord Rama?

[dalecampbl5]

Haha, I like your reply. I do like modernism in prokofiev, shostakovich, stravinsky, bartok, and some hindemith, but for the true hardcore advant gardists, those guy aren't really avant garde...anymore. But dudes like Alban Berg and this stuff...it's I don't "understand" it...it's just that, I honestly can't it's enjoyable. The music is so....not going anywhere.