HAYDN Piano Sonata no: 49 in Eb

HAYDN Piano Sonata no: 49 in Eb

The No 49 Eb Sonata is one of the Haydn’s later Keyboard sonatas. This is written in a period that Haydn had reached its mastery in the sonata form. This sonata dates 1789, almost ten years after Jungfemquartette where he first developed the idea of mixing themes in the developing section of the sonata form. In his own words, this was a new and a personal style. The Eb sonata is in this new style in every sense. Haydn’s mastery of reducing and separating the themes and reconstructing them is quite worth analyzing here.

This first movement of the Sonata is a very typical sonata-allegro form, which is basically A B A`, the first A being the exposition, B is the development and the A` is the recapitulation. Although I say development for the B section, I should make clear that this section is elaboration of the themes from A and hardly anything new develops. To more extent, almost every idea in the piece can be referred to the first 4 bars, which ...