Rondo for Piano and Strings

Composer: FIELD, John
  • Field composed this Rondo in A-Flat Major for piano and strings in St. Petersburg in 1813.1
  • Field composed many works in the Rondo genre; he often used his Rondos as impressive closers for his concerts at the salons of aristocratic Russian patrons.2
    • Sometimes Field used the term rondo to indicate a midtempo piece with a light, rhythmic theme and sections of impressive passagework, rather than the strict Classical rondo form.3

Sources

  1. Robin Langley, “Field, John,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 1, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009603.
  2. Patrick Pigott, The Life and Music of John Field, 1782-1837, Creator of the Nocturne (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 236-237.
  3. Ibid., 233.

Cut IDs

13341