Sonata · No. 1 · La Fenice is a six-movement work for solo piano. Its title, “The Phoenix,” gives the sonata a mythic frame without reducing it to a program. The music suggests a cycle of pressure, fracture, transformation and return.

In Auerbach’s piano writing, the sonata becomes a dramatic field rather than a purely inherited form. Gesture, resonance and architecture are held in tension: the instrument speaks as both percussive body and singing memory.

• Form Sonata in six movements.
• Duration Approximately 20 minutes.
• Forces Solo piano.

La Fenice occupies an important place within Auerbach’s piano catalogue: it is not a miniature or suite, but a sustained sonata, carrying a larger arc of conflict, transformation and release.

Auerbach has connected the work’s title to the myth of the phoenix, rising from ashes. This image gives the sonata its inner emblem: not simple recovery, but a return changed by what has been burned away.

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