Sonata for Two Pianos is a composition by russian composer Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

, premiered in 1944 by Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson

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 and Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

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. First conceived as a solo work, Stravinsky needed to write it for four hands to voice all four melodic lines clearly.

Structure

The sonata is in three movements, though one CD recording indexes the theme and four variations of the second movement separately. However, it is in only three movements.

• I. Moderato
• II. Theme with Variations
  • Theme
  • Variation I
  • Variation II
  • Variation III
  • Variation IV
• III. Allegretto