Harp Sonata

• Tailleferre composed her Sonate pour harpe¹ in 1953, and it was published in 1957.²
• Tailleferre dedicated this sonata to the Spanish harpist Nicanor Zabaleta.³
  • Tailleferre wrote this sonata at Zabaleta’s request.⁴
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos‘s Harp Concerto is another piece written for Zabaleta.

Movements

1. Allegretto  
2. Lento 
3. Perpetuum Mobile⁵

1. Megan Landfair, “Germaine Tailleferre’s Obscure Contributions to Harp Literature,”  DMA diss. (Indiana University, 2014), 13, accessed July 8, 2021, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/17570/Landfair_Megan_5_6_2014.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1.
2. Robert Orledge, “Tailleferre, Germaine,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 8, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000027390. 
3. Germaine Tailleferre, Sonata for Harp (New York: PeerMusic, 1957).
4. Landfair, “Germaine Tailleferre’s Obscure Contributions to Harp Literature,” 13.
5. Tailleferre, Sonata for Harp.