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This dissertation offers a theory of neoclassical sonata form in interwar France. My theory is based on analysis of fifteen representative sonata-form chamber movements written during the 1920s and 30s by Ravel, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Milhaud, Honegger, Tailleferre, Auric, Durey, …

Ricardo Viñes (1875-1943) was a Catalan pianist who spent most of his career based in Paris. He premiered many of the major piano works by Debussy, Ravel, and other French, Spanish and Latin American composers of the early twentieth century. He had a reputation among his peers a…