The keyboard sonatas of Pietro Augusto : an investigation into their formal and stylistic apsects

Abstract

This thesis supplements "The Piano Sonata of the Eighteenth Century in Germany" (Vol. 2 in the publication series "Contributions to the development of the Piano Sonata"). It does not aim at a comparative study between Pieto Augusto and his contemporaries but intends to establish the composer's individual characteristics in the light of the general development of the piano sonata during the eighteenth century.