A piece in this genre opens serenely in 12/8 (“twelve-eight”) time with a G major chord held for five-and-a-half beats before a sixteenth-note D7 chord over G. A late A major piece in this genre contains a melancholy 3/8 (“three-eight”) Andantino in F-sharp minor and is bookended by C minor and B-flat major pieces in the same genre. An unfinished piece in this genre was nicknamed “Reliquie” in the mistaken belief that it was its composer’s final work. A “trill of doom” on low G-flat and A-flat features repeatedly in a piece in this genre that is labeled D. 960 in Franz Schubert’s catalog. A piece in this genre that opens with slow ascending broken C-sharp minor triads in the right hand drew Ludwig Rellstab’s comparison to the light on Lake Lucerne. For 10 points, name this genre of multi-movement works for piano, including Beethoven’s “Moonlight.” ■END■
ANSWER: piano sonatas [or sonatas for piano; accept Klaviersonaten; prompt on sonatas or sonaten until “piano” is read and accept afterwards]
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