Keyboard Sonatas 1

Keyboard Sonatas 1

• Keyboard
• Cimarosa, D.
• sounds

Domenico Cimarosa was the most famous and popular Italian opera composer of the<br>second half of the 18th Century. In the course of a brilliantly successful career he<br>composed more than 65 operas as well as a significant number of other works. Although<br>nothing is known about the origins of the keyboard sonatas, they are attractive, small-scale<br>works probably intended for study purposes or for domestic performance. The crystalline<br>brilliance of many of the fast outer movements is very appealing and the slow movements,<br>although somewhat conservative in style, often possess a surprising expressive depth.