Sonata No. 8 in F minor, mvt. 4 - Melencorey

Andrew Hendrickson

This sonata was written in the wake of the COVID pandemic from 2021 to 2023. Its movements express my feelings about the madness of it all. Our world is unjust and only getting more terrifying with each passing year. May we find a way to overcome this cancerous capitalist oligarchy and build a new, better world that supports us instead of exploiting us.

This movement was written after it was pointed out to me that the second and third movements combined are still shorter than the first one. If this sonata should ever be performed, it is my wish that this piece is at the end of a concert or prior to an intermission, and that at the conclusion of the third movement, the performer storms angrily off the stage: only returning to play this one after sufficient applause.