# Essays Before a Sonata

An audiobook by Charles Ives, read by LibriVox volunteers (3 h 21 min, English).

Some philosophical studies in relation to the ideas of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne. Although the sonata is not explicitly referenced in this text, the ideas of these philosophers were attempted to be integrated into Ives' famous 'Piano Sonata No. 2 Concord, Mass.' - Summary by Reader

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