The Second Violin Sonata, Op. 58, was composed in November and December 2009 and is conceived as a friendly counterpart to the somber and turbulent First Violin Sonata, Op. 38 (2000). The work's bright overall mood is certainly influenced, not least, by its place of composition, Cervo on the Ligurian Riviera, my adopted Italian home—literally written in sunshine under a blue sky. The entire work is based on a musical motto, which, however, is only revealed in the concluding ten-bar Adagio amoroso, which seems to originate from a bygone world. All the material relates to it, and the entire sonata appears to have been composed solely to express this concluding statement. The first movement is a broad Moderato with two themes in strict sonata form. Both the thematic material and all formal links are harmonically and melodically derived from the intervals of the minor and major third and their complementary intervals, the major and minor sixth. This almost serial approach, however, is completely masked by the exuberantly romantic character of the music. The very fast, feather-light second Scherzo movement is dominated by the airy pizzicato of the violin and fleeting piano figures; only in the lyrical Trio does the violin rise to a four-phrase, slowly ascending cantilena on a chorale-like chordal foundation laid by the piano. The slow introduction to the final movement already approaches the concluding motto very clearly without revealing it in its entirety. This introduction is taken up again in the middle of the two-themed, fiery, rushing Allegro, instead of being a development section, and transformed into the lively character of the final movement. The work concludes, certainly very surprisingly for contemporary music, with the sounding of its true heart, the "Adagio amoroso."