Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata nº 47 in B minor Hob. XVI:32

Sviatoslav Richter, piano Of the six Haydn sonatas published as Opus 14 in 1776, this one is generally held to be the best and represents Haydn’s extensive experimentation with new variation forms. The two outer sonata-form movements of the Sonata have distinctive thematic material which, in the first movement, is scrutinized in one of Haydn’s most concise and intensely motivic development sections and, in the finale, the B minor and D major themes, highly contrasting in texture but sharing rhythmic featu