Piano Sonata (Dukas)

The Piano Sonata in E-flat minor is a musical work composed by Paul Dukas between 1899 and 1900, and published in 1901.
Reception.
In the first decade of the 20th century, following the immense success of his orchestral work "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", Dukas completed two complex and technically demanding large-scale works for solo piano: the Piano Sonata, dedicated to Saint-Saëns, and "Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau" (1902). In Dukas's piano works critics have discerned the influence of Beethoven, or, "Beethoven as he was interpreted to the French mind by César Franck". Both works were premiered by Édouard Risler, a celebrated pianist of the era.
In an analysis of the work in "The Musical Quarterly" in 1928, the critic Irving Schwerké wrote:
The Sonata, described by the critic Edward Lockspeiser as "huge and somewhat recondite", did not enter the mainstream repertoire, but it has more recently been championed by such pianists as John Ogdon, Marc-André Hamelin, and Margaret Fingerhut.