05/15/2026
New edition published today! The legendary Easter Sonata for
The Easter Sonata has one of the more remarkable origin stories in the catalog; it took nearly two centuries and the contributions of many researchers for this elusive sonata to be rediscovered and correctly attributed to its composer, F***y Hensel.
Read the story and download the score for free at the link in bio
The work is influenced by Bach’s Passion music and has programmatic elements. Read more about the rediscovery of the sonata here.
The sonata has four movements:
The first movement is in sonata-allegro form in A major, and the influence of is apparent.
The second movement, in E minor, has allusions to ; it is in prelude-and-fugue form and quotes the St. Matthew Passion (F***y and Felix would have been rehearsing the Passion at the time of composition, one year before the famous revival concerts in 1829).
The third movement is a scampering Frühlingslied (spring song), primarily in E major.
The finale is a turbulent movement in A minor which depicts the earthquake at the moment of Jesus’s death, followed by an A-major chorale on Bach’s “Christe du Lamm Gottes”
