The three organ sonatas of Albert Lister Peace, each with the title Sonata da Camera and written by a leading concert organist of the era, are notable additions to the repertoire in an era when organ concert programming was heavily dominated by transcriptions of orchestral and chamber repertoire. The sonatas are playable on both small and large instruments and allow for creativity in registration. The technical difficulty varies between movements but would have been consistently within the range of many organists of the era. Peace’s compositional style shows an easy engagement with chromaticism and confident musical gestures that would have stood apart from many earlier English sonatas that were still rooted in Mendelssohn’s harmonic language. As such, the da Camera element is also shown in a compositional approach that would have been familiar with larger English concert world. This is especially obvious in his approach to the conclusion of movements which are often noticeably declamatory in a manner that is not redolent of earlier sonatas.

Editor: Iain Quinn

Publication Date: 6/25/2025

Pages: pp. 68

Size: 230x310 mm

Binding: Saddle stitching

ISMN: 979-0-2153-2878-5

Code: HS 339

Codice int.: hs339