A B-flat minor piece in this genre opens with a four-bar grave (“grah-vey”) introduction that precedes an agitated doppio movimento theme. A man is depicted at ages 20, 30, 40, and 50 in the four movements of a piece in this genre by Charles-Valentin Alkan. Charles Rosen identified a single-movement piece in this genre as an early example of double-function form. A “trill of doom” on low G-flat and A-flat appears eight measures into a piece in this genre, (*) Schubert’s D. 960. A Larghetto in 5/4 (“five-four”) time appears in the C minor first of three pieces in this genre by Chopin, while his second piece in this genre contains a third movement funeral march. A radical B minor piece in this genre was composed by Liszt. For 10 points, give this solo keyboard genre of Beethoven’s Appassionata and Moonlight. ■END■
ANSWER: piano sonata [accept equivalents such as sonata for klavier; prompt on grande sonata]
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