Around 2005, I was a student at Oberlin, and I found an ancient Henle edition of Rejcha at a music store outside the college. It was discolored and rotting away, but I bought it. The book contained this sonata and 57 Variations on an Original Theme. I played the Sonata for my audition to the B.M. conservatory program. I left after I didn't get in and went back to California, but I took the book with me. Such a strange composer. Very simple on the surface, but he had radical ideas that wouldn't be fully expressed until deep into the 20th century.
You will probably hate me for this statement, but in my opinion there are definetely better sonatas than this... I can't find one interesting section in this work worth remembering...
Around 2005, I was a student at Oberlin, and I found an ancient Henle edition of Rejcha at a music store outside the college. It was discolored and rotting away, but I bought it. The book contained this sonata and 57 Variations on an Original Theme. I played the Sonata for my audition to the B.M. conservatory program. I left after I didn't get in and went back to California, but I took the book with me. Such a strange composer. Very simple on the surface, but he had radical ideas that wouldn't be fully expressed until deep into the 20th century.
Beethoven's friend, Liszt's teacher!
You will probably hate me for this statement, but in my opinion there are definetely better sonatas than this... I can't find one interesting section in this work worth remembering...