From the Street, Piano Sonata I.X.1905 (Janaçek)
Movements
i Foreboding (Předtucha) – Con moto, ii Death (Smrt) – Adagio
Notes
Piano Sonata 1.X.1905, is a two-movement (originally three-movement) piano sonata in E-flat minor composed by Leoš Janáček in 1905. It is also known as From the Street. Janáček intended the composition to be a tribute to a worker named František Pavlík (1885–1905), who on 1 October 1905 was bayoneted during demonstrations in support for a Czech university in Brno. In the work, Janáček expresses his disapproval of the violent death of the young carpenter. He started to compose it immediately after the incident occurred and finished its composition in January 1906.
