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AllPianoCelloWikipediaThe sonata is in three movements:
Cole Tutino, in their thesis, notes that, while the dedication states that this sonata and the Op. 21 sonata published with it were both "...written for and dedicated to Berhard Romberg..." and thus that Ries probably expected Romberg to take them into his repertoire, the sonata was not written as a virtuoso showpiece, but rather a work incorporating playing techniques favored by Romberg that could be played by skilled amateurs, a fact pointed out in a review of the two sonatas published in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, shortly after they were published.