45 piano sonatas: Score

Matthew King's piano sonatas engage with sonata composition from a new perspective. They are all single-movement pieces and they are all in sonata form. The sonatas dialogue with existing piano repertoire from Scarlatti to the present day, and they are inspired by a range of topics: some are landscape pieces; some are about other composers and musicians (from Hildegard of Bingen to Kate Bush) and one is a combined homage to Pierre Boulez and David Bowie because they both died in January 2016; some sonatas experiment radically with form (open form; palindromic form; shuffled form etc) whilst remaining (at least notionally) in Sonata Form; there are sub-sets of sonatas inspired by Eric Satie; Venetian Sonatas (inspired by a trip to Venice in 2019); sonatas inspired by seasons; sonatas inspired by films; sonatas inspired by women-novelists; pastoral sonatas, and tributes to family, friends and colleagues.