Hungarian Rhapsodies virtuoso pianist as well as a composer). Liszt incorporated many themes he had heard in his native western Hungary and which he believed to be folk music, though many were in fact tunes written by members of the Hungarian upper middle class, or by composers such as József Kossovits, often played by Roma (Gypsy) bands. The large scale structure of each was influenced by the verbunkos, a Hungarian dance in several parts, each with a different tempo. Within this structure, Liszt preserved the two main structural elements of typical Gypsy improvisation—the "lassan" ("slow") and the "friska" ("fast"). At the same
Piano Sonata (Dutilleux) piece with echoes of Bartók and Prokofiev" as well as a "sonata that Debussy might have written... sensuous and classical". Piano Sonata (Dutilleux) Henri Dutilleux wrote his only piano sonata in 1947–1948. It was dedicated to and premièred by his wife Geneviève Joy on 30 April 1948. It has since become one of the most acclaimed post-World War II works in the genre and has been championed by major pianists such as John Ogdon, Robert Levin, John Chen and Claire-Marie Le Guay. Although Dutilleux had been active as a composer for ten years when he wrote his piano sonata, he