Six years from score to publicationSourced
The sonata was finished in 1939.
Its score appeared in 1945.
Paul Creston completed his saxophone sonata in 1939, with publication planned for 1940. Wartime staffing shortages delayed the printed score until 1945, although the piece had already been performed in 1940.
The music was heard
before the score was sold.
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