Description
Instrumentation: harpsichord
Edition: score
Editor: Sally Fortino
Difficulty: medium
The third of her still extant sonatas for harpsichord or fortepiano, in the key of G-major, features especially inventive passages and development sections as well as a free treatment of chromaticism and forward-moving rhythmic motives. The Italian melodic style is prevalent.
“When Charles Burney heard her, he said ‘she had a very brilliant finger’. This is needed in her lively G Major Sonata (1769). Her music is energetic, fresh, open and elegant.” Diana Ambache in: Harpsichord and Fortepiano Vol 16 Nr. 1, 2011
