Guitar Sonata No. 3

Composer: PONCE, Manuel
  • Ponce composed this sonata in 1927, and it was published in 1928.1
  • Ponce generally referred to this sonata as “Sonata III.” It was not chronologically his third sonata for guitar, though it was his third without a programmatic or descriptive title.2
  • Segovia was the work’s dedicatee, and he edited the first edition.3 He wrote to Ponce from Switzerland while in the process of editing Sonata III: 

“I am in the full revision of your works. Sonata III is ready … It is all very beautiful and it is a work of importance for the guitar, the player and the public. I thank you once more wholeheartedly.”

Segovia to Ponce, Thorens, Switzerland, July 20, 19284

Movements 

  1. Allegro moderato 
  2. Cancion. Andante 
  3. Allegro non troppo 

Sources

  1. “Guitar Sonata No. 3 (Ponce, Manuel),” IMSLP, accessed August 20, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Guitar_Sonata_No.3_(Ponce%2C_Manuel).  
  2. Ricardo Miranda Pérez, “Ponce (Cuéllar), Manuel” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 20, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000022072. 
  3. “Guitar Sonata No. 3 (Ponce, Manuel),” IMSLP, accessed August 20, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Guitar_Sonata_No.3_(Ponce%2C_Manuel).
  4. Corazón Otero, Manuel M. Ponce and the Guitar (Westport, CT: The Bold Strummer, 1994), 28-29.

Cut IDs

15057