Chopin: Complete Piano Music Vol 7: Piano sonatas

The first of Chopin's three piano sonatas, the Sonata in C minor, Opus 4, was completed in 1828, at a time when the composer was still a student of Jozet Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory The sonata was published posthumously, in 1851. It was inevitable that at some point in his career Chopin should tackle a form that had proved of such vital importance in the development of instrumental music of all kinds. Later he was to treat the sonata with characteristic originality, of which there are already distinct traces in this early example.