J. S. Bach and the well-tempered clavier -- Bach's French suites -- Joseph Haydn's early classical piano -- Mozart's high classical piano -- Mozart's Sonata in C minor, K. 457 -- Beethoven's Sonata in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1 -- Beethoven's Sonata No. 31, Op. 110, Movt. 1 -- Beethoven's Sonata No. 31, Op. 110, Movts. 2-3 -- The songs of Franz Schubert -- Schubert's Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 -- Robert Schumann's romantic dream world -- Clara Schumann and the plight of women composers -- Frederic Chopin: Piano's quintessential romantic -- Chopin's nocturnes and ballades -- Johannes Brahms: Piano's dark poet -- Franz Liszt: The consummate pianist -- The rise of the Russian pianists -- Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern -- The preludes of Debussy -- French piano in the early 20th century -- Charles Ives, Sergei Prokofiev, and Bela Bartok -- Marginalized composers -- New sounds for a new century.
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