This is the last piece of solo piano music I've composed and finished. Originally intended to be a four movement Sonata for Piano, I have since expanded on the original ideas to make it into a full-fledged Piano Concerto (which I'm still working on).

However, this movement, intended to be the first movement, stands well enough on its own for me to share. It is in Sonata-allegro form, beginning with a dramatic opening motif, the rise of a whole step from F# to G# in the bass, followed by a descending dotted-note rhythm in the right hand. After some Scriabin inspired pyrotechnics, the two-note motif becomes a four note motif F#-G#-G#-A, and six note motif F#-G#-G#-A-B-C# that is played back and forth in both hands.

After a calmer bridge section, the second theme enters in rolled chords in Db Major. This major key section plays very chromatic chord relationships beneath a descending line which mirrors the opening theme. This is varied twice in increasing intensity before fading into a major chord.

The development section steals a theme from Dohnanyi's Passacaglia in Eb Minor and blends it with theme one. Both the first and second themes are heard in various guises until a thrumming base explodes into a dramatic restatement of the opening theme. The recapitulation follows before the piece finally ends in a quiet rehashing of the four note motif in A Major.

Both first and second theme are expanded on in the Concerto which I will share once it is completed (hopefully sometime in the next year).

I hope you enjoy this, my best piano work. And I want to thank PetNana for the awesome picture I'm now using for my piano pieces.

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