Description
The Sonate (or Sonata) was dedicated to Franz Liszt and sounds much like his piano pieces. The score is not dated, but Liszt himself refers to the work in a letter in 1871.
Harmonic similarities abound between Liszt’s own Sonata (1854) and Marie Jaëll’s. Virtuosity, ad. lib. sections, short melodies, unexpected key relationships, and the abundance of meter changes characterize both. Movement 1 is an Allegro (Modified Sonata-Allegro Form), Movement 2 an Adagio, Movement 3, Tempo di Minuetto, that sounds Schumannesque, and Movement 4, a lengthy, heavy-textured movement marked Allegro.
