Piano sonata

[1] The majority of these sonatas are in one-movement binary form, both sections being in the same tempo and utilizing the same thematic material.

Other composers of Baroque keyboard sonatas (which were primarily written in two or three movements) include Marcello, Domenico Alberti, Giustini, Durante and Platti.

All the well-known Classical era composers, especially Friedrich Kuhlau, Joseph Haydn, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven, wrote many piano sonatas.

As the Romantic era progressed after Beethoven and Schubert, piano sonatas continued to be composed, but in lesser numbers as the form took on a somewhat academic tinge and competed with shorter genres more compatible with Romantic compositional style.

Franz Liszt's comprehensive "three-movements-in-one" Sonata in B minor draws on the concept of thematic transformation first introduced by Schubert in his Wanderer Fantasie of 1822.

Ludwig van Beethoven 's manuscript sketch for Piano Sonata No. 28 , Movement IV, Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossenheit ( Allegro ), in his own handwriting. The piece was completed in 1816.