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- Composer: Willem (Frederik Willem Johannes) Pijper (8 September 1894 -- 18 March 1947)
- Performers: Ans Bouter (piano), Miep van Luin (piano)
- Year of recording: 1968

Sonata for Two Pianos, written in 1935.

00:00 - I. Allegro aperto, ma pesante
02:59 - II. Grave
06:36 - III. Moderato assai

This very rarely performed piano sonata is a typical Pijper composition: there are many polymetric passages (something Pijper experimented with), and the material is often slender and lithe like a Scarlatti sonata. Pijper also used his germ cell technique in this composition; the slow movement is an invention and there is a fugue in the finale.

This piano sonata was written for the pianists Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson.