“A sonata is a piece, usually in several movements, that has a certain basic musical form; and when that form is used in a piece for a solo instrument, like a piano or violin or flute, or a solo ...

As melodies and phrases became longer, so did individual sections. Sonata form was a new structure that evolved from the Baroque forms of the Classical period. It was usually the form of the first ...

This movement is in sonata form and contrasts a dynamic first subject and a more relaxed second subject with a distinctive bridge passage that alternates four-bar phrases of G flat major and F ...