Piano Sonata No. 5 (Hummel)

Piano Sonata No. 5
by Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Hummel in 1820
KeyF-sharp minor
Opus81
Composed1819 (1819)
DedicationPrincess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Published1819
PublisherSteiner
Duration23-35 minutes
Movements3
Scoringpiano

Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Piano Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp minor, Op. 81 was written and published in 1819. The work is written in a proto-Romantic style that anticipates the later stylistic developments of composers such as Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Felix Mendelssohn, and Johannes Brahms.