Niels Gade (Niels W. Gade, 1817 - 1890) was a leading Danish composer and conductor in the 19th century, but it is a strange name for us. Because many of his works in various genres have been simply treated as such that German Romanticism is mixed with Scandinavian orientation.
While Gade s musical works, especially piano music, have so far been studied with little to come, I have found a much more complex combination of different styles of music that are characteristic of his studies, and in particular, C. P. E. Bach s Empfindsamer Stil. Then it would not the end of its history with his main keyboard instrument Clavichord, but rather handed down to piano which began to replace it by the late 18th century. Then it means Gade s piano literature is one of those important examples, and even a historical re-evaluation of his keyboard music is considered.
His Piano Sonata op.28, which is the topic of my paper(1840; revision in 1851), is the one composed shortly before he left for Leipzig in northern Germany so that relative influence of Mendelssohn and Schumann is weak comparatively yet compared to other later works, therefore his own basic musical styles can be more overtly shown.