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Rachmaninov, Sergey Vasilyevich: Piano Sonata no. 2 in b flat minor op. 36

Versions 1913 and 1931

sheet music

Op. 79
Setting: Piano
Period: Romantic
Length: 88 pages
Weight: 0.356 kg
Published: 2018
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1256
Other reference: HN 1256
ISMN: 9790201812564
Finally, G. Henle Publishers is able to offer one of Rachmaninov’s most important, most substantial piano works in a meticulous Urtext edition that does justice to the work and to the editorial difficulties it raises. Rachmaninov was unhappy with the dense textures and the length of his Piano Sonata in b-flat minor, so almost 20 years after its composition and publication he made numerous cuts and ''streamlined'' it ╩ though this has been criticised by pianists down to the present day. For this
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