This piece is also a work I wrote in College. It is conceived like Liszt's Piano Sonata as a continuous work in multiple movements played without a break. There are five movements telescoped together.

The piece opens with a brilliant C# Minor introduction featuring a five note/chord motif that will reappear throughout the work in various guises. It then leads to the first of four fughetta that are interspersed throughout. What follows is a double exposition with two contrasting themes, the first highly chromatic, the second lyrical. The development section is vigorous and heavily chromatic. The recapitulation leads quietly to a Rondo fast movement.

The Rondo theme plays three times. The first contrasting episode is the second fughetta. After the rondo completes it leads into the third fughetta which dwindles away to the adagio. The adagio is a set of variations on a brooding theme. After this an interroto jazz inspired movement occurs which has the right hand playing almost entirely on black notes. This leads directly into a restatement of the opening five chord introduction.

The fourth fughetta then occurs, combining all three previous fugue themes into a contrapuntal mess. After this concludes in ominous chords, the themes from the rondo and adagio reappear, last of all the theme from the opening sonata form movement. Once all have been represented the movement ends with a brilliant coda on the main motif. It ends with a decisive V-I.

I still love this piece even if it is clearly a junior work on my part. And yes, it is thirty minutes in length. I apologize for the quality of the midi.