Everybody is always talking about the C-sharp minor sonata; surely I have written better things. There is the Sonata in F-sharp major—that is something very different.

Immer spricht man von der Cis-moll-Sonate; ich habe doch wahrhaftig Besseres geschrieben. Da ist die Fis-dur-Sonate doch etwas anderes.

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