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A '''sonata''' is a specialized musical form written for instruments rather than voices. Over the course of the 18th-century in Central Europe, the sonata became a highly-evolved form of music in which every serious composition for solo [[piano]], [[chamber music]] ensemble, or symphony [[orchestra]] was written. While sonata composition reached its height of importance around the turn of the 19th-century, it left a substantial imprint on the formal thinking of Western composers throughout the next two centuries, and its principles are still taught worldwide today to students in all disciplines of classical music.  

A '''sonata''' is a specialized musical form written for instruments rather than voices. Over the course of the 18th-century in Central Europe, the sonata became a highly-evolved form of music in which every serious composition for solo [[piano]], [[chamber music]] ensemble, or symphony [[orchestra]] was written. While sonata composition reached its height of importance around the turn of the 19th-century, it left a substantial imprint on the formal thinking of Western composers throughout the next two centuries, and its principles are still taught worldwide today to students in all disciplines of classical music.