Who wrote the music commonly known as 'The Funeral March', it comes from his Piano Sonata No.2 written in 1837?
Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin) Piano Sonata No. 2, the first mature piano sonata Chopin wrote, are centred on its third movement ("Marche funèbre"), a funeral march which many scholars indicate was written in 1837. However, Jeffrey Kallberg believes that such indications are because of an autograph manuscript of eight bars of music in D-flat major marked "Lento cantabile", apparently written as a gift to an unnamed recipient. The manuscript, which is dated 28 November 1837, would later become part of the trio of the "Marche funèbre". However, Kallberg suggests this manuscript may have been intended as the beginning of an earlier attempt of a
Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) The Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass., 1840–60 (commonly known as the Concord Sonata") is a piano sonata by Charles Ives. It is one of the composer's best-known and most highly regarded pieces. A typical performance of the piece lasts around 45 minutes. Some material in the "Concord Sonata" dates back as far as 1904, but Ives did not begin substantial work on it until around 1911 and largely completed the sonata by 1915. The "Concord Sonata" was first published in 1920 with a second, revised, edition appearing in 1947. It is this version which