The Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109 is the first of the two cello sonatas by Gabriel Fauré. Composed in 1917 at Saint-Raphaël and Paris, it was premiered on 10 November 1917 at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique by Gérard Hekking as the cellist and Alfred Cortot as the pianist. At the same concert, the Second Violin Sonata was also premiered.^[1] The dedicatee of the work was the cellist Louis Hasselmans, who gave a second performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 1918.

Structure

1. Allegro (3/4). The movement has the sonata form with two themes.
2. Andante (3/4, in G minor)
3. Finale: Allegro commodo (4/4, in D Major)

• The playing time is about twenty minutes.

Notes

Sources

• Nectoux, Jean-Michel (1991). Gabriel Fauré – A Musical Life. Roger Nichols (trans.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-23524-2.
• Tranchefort, François-René (1989). Guide de la musique de chambre. Les indispensables de la musique (in French). Paris: Fayard. p. 322. ISBN 2-213-02403-0.

External links

• Cello Sonata No. 1 (Fauré): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project