Sonata for 2 Violins, Op.56 (Prokofiev, Sergey)

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		Movements/Sections 4 movements: Andante cantabile Allegro Commodo (quasi allegretto) Allegro con brio Composition Year 1932 Genre Categories Sonatas; For 2 violins; Scores featuring the violin; For 2 players

Sheet Music

• Scores (2)

Scores

 Violin 1 part [TB]
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 Violin 2 part [TB]
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Aglover (2006/10/21)

Editor:

First edition

Publisher Info.:

Berlin: Editions Russes de Musique, 1932. Plates R.M.V. 570-571

Reprinted:

London: Hawkes & Son, n.d.(after 1947). Plate B & H 17606

Copyright:

Public Domain - Non-PD US, Non-PD EU [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	Sonata for 2 Violins
Alternative Title	Соната для 2 скрипок

Composer	Prokofiev, Sergey
Opus/Catalogue Number	Op.56
Key	C major
Movements/Sections	4 movements: Andante cantabile Allegro Commodo (quasi allegretto) Allegro con brio
Year/Date of Composition	1932
First Performance	1932-11-27 — Moscow: Dmitry Tsyganov, Vladimir Shirinsky (violins)
First Publication	1932 — Berlin: Editions Russes de Musique. Plates R.M.V. 570-571.
Average Duration	14 minutes
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	2 violins
External Links	Notes to LA Philharmonic Concert, by Herbert Glass All Music Guide

Misc. Comments

Several sources (e.g. the ones quoted, and including the composer's own letters, I think!) have the premiere as having taken place at the Inaugural Concert of the music society Triton in Paris, played by Dushkin and Soetens, on 16 December 1932. From where is the November 27 1932 performance derived? - Schissel (possibly from the Prokofiev.org link which no longer exists, I know... ok, I'd have to ask where they got their information, I suppose. David Nice writes (Prokofiev - A Biography: From Russia to the West, 1891-1935, p.303) that the sonata's Moscow premiere - that is, its first performance in Moscow- was given by Tsyganov and Shirinsky. I suspect the date above, or the date I have for the concert at which Dushkin and Soetens premiered the work in Paris, is wrong.)

Ah. "Triton was beaten to the punch, however – by three weeks – when the Sonata was played, with the composer’s permission, in Moscow by Dmitri Tziganov and Vassily Shirinsky, the violinists of the Beethoven String Quartet, later to become closely associated with Shostakovich. How Triton responded to having only the “Western premiere” is not a matter of record."