Cello Sonata No. 1 (Fauré) Explained

The Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109 is the first of the two cello sonatas by Gabriel Fauré. Composed in 1917 at Saint-Raphaël and Paris, it was premiered on 10 November 1917 at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique by Gérard Hekking as the cellist and Alfred Cortot as the pianist. At the same concert, the Second Violin Sonata was also premiered.^[1] The dedicatee of the work was the cellist Louis Hasselmans, who gave a second performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 1918.

Structure

1. Allegro (3/4). The movement has the sonata form with two themes.
2. Andante (3/4, in G minor)
3. Finale: Allegro commodo (4/4, in D Major)

• The playing time is about twenty minutes.

Sources

• Book: Nectoux, Jean-Michel . Jean-Michel Nectoux

. Jean-Michel Nectoux. Roger Nichols (trans.). 1991. Gabriel Fauré – A Musical Life . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-23524-2.

• Book: François-René Tranchefort

. fr. François-René . Tranchefort. François-René Tranchefort . Les indispensables de la musique . Guide de la musique de chambre . . Paris . 1989 . 322 . 2-213-02403-0 .

Notes and References

1. Nectoux, p. 412