Sonata for Cello and Piano
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1961
- Duration
- 18'
- Publisher
- American Composers Alliance (American Composers Edition)
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About this piece
Gideon's Sonata for Cello and Piano is a two-movement work of about 18 minutes, first issued in 1961 by the Composers Facsimile Edition of the American Composers Alliance. It is written in the freely atonal idiom Gideon adopted after studying with Roger Sessions. The first movement, marked agitato ma non troppo vivo, shifts constantly between 2/4, 3/4 and 3/8 and takes the cello into the treble clef early on. Copies are available from the American Composers Alliance, and a scan of the 1961 edition is on IMSLP.
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