Sonata for B-flat Clarinet and Piano by Johanna Magdalena Beyer. Hofmeister, 2009, SS, 14 + 6 pages. Johanna Magdalena Beyer (1888-1944) was born in Germany. She immigrated to the United States in 1924 where she continued her music studies and worked as a piano teacher. She affiliated herself with the experimental music community in York but only one of her compositions was published in her lifetime. This piece, which is dedicated to Rosario Mazzeo and Nicolas Slonimsky, was written in 1936. It is in four movements: Allegro, Adagio, Allegretto, and Lento. The Adagio movement is unusual with the clarinet mostly playing whole and half notes above the staff, while the piano plays melodic figures in the first part of the piece and descending arpeggios in the second. The Lento, with nothing quicker than a quarter note, has a range to altissimo A. College level. (C1379)