Péter Nagy Presented by Liszt Academy

“Recommended Milestones” could also be the title of Péter Nagy’s piano recital. The Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, completed in the summer of 1804, is one of the most significant pieces of Ludwig van Beethoven’s middle, “heroic” creative period, dedicated to his friend and patron, Count Waldstein. Robert Schumann’s Fantasie in C Major was completed in 1836, but the composer significantly revised it before its publication in 1839. The revised form is a central work of both the composer and the early Romantic period. It is dedicated to the great contemporary, Ferenc Liszt. In contrast, Béla Bartók dedicated his only Piano Sonata, written in 1926, to a very close family member, his wife, Ditta Pásztory. The Sonata is one of the key works of the composer’s “piano year” and an early herald of a new, more classical and refined creative period.