Question: In what year did the composer of Piano Sonata No. 1 die?
Context: The Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5 of Johannes Brahms was written in 1853 and published the following year.  The sonata is unusually large, consisting of five movements, as opposed to the traditional three or four.  When he wrote this piano sonata, the genre was seen by many to be past its heyday.  Brahms, enamored of Beethoven and the classical style, composed Piano Sonata No. 3 with a masterful combination of free Romantic spirit and strict classical architecture.  As a further testament to Brahms' affinity for Beethoven, the Piano Sonata is infused with the instantly recognizable motive from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 during the first, third, and fourth movements.  Composed in Düsseldorf, it marks the end of his cycle of three sonatas, and was presented to Robert Schumann in November of that year; it was the last work that Brahms submitted to Schumann for commentary.  Brahms was barely 20 years old at its composition.  The piece is dedicated to Countess Ida von Hohenthal of Leipzig. A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano.  Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement (Scarlatti, Liszt, Scriabin, Medtner), two movements (Haydn), five (Brahms' Third Piano Sonata) or even more movements.  The first movement is generally composed in sonata form. Pierre Boulez composed three piano sonatas.  The First Piano Sonata in 1946, a Second Piano Sonata in 1948, and a Third Piano Sonata was composed in 1955–57 with further elaborations up to at least 1963, though only two of its movements (and a fragment of another) have been published. Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов , "Sergey Vasilyevich Rakhmaninov"; ] ; 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1873 28 March 1943) was a Russian virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the romantic repertoire. Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op.  28, is a piano sonata by Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1908.  It is the first of three "Dresden pieces", along with Symphony No. 2 and part of an opera, which were composed in the quiet city of Dresden, Germany.  It was originally inspired by Goethe's tragic play "Faust"; although Rachmaninoff abandoned the idea soon after beginning composition, traces of this influence can still be found.  After numerous revisions and substantial cuts made at the advice of his colleagues, he completed it on April 11, 1908.  Konstantin Igumnov gave the premiere in Moscow on October 17, 1908.  It received a lukewarm response there, and remains one of the least performed of Rachmaninoff's works. Double-function form is a musical construction that allows for a collection of movements to be viewed as elements of a single larger musical form.  The most famous example of this is Franz Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor (1853).  The sonata is composed as a single movement with about a half an hour’s duration.  The piece introduces some themes at the very outset of the piece which are manipulated and recapitulated over twenty minutes later.  Charles Rosen believes that the work as whole fulfils his criterion for a sonata form.  Moreover, within the one long sonata form, there exists a short sonata form, followed by a slow ternary, followed by a scherzo and fugue, followed by a finale.  Thus, the single movement fulfills the standard of both a classical sonata form and a classical four movement piano sonata. The Piano Sonata No. 2 in F♯ minor, Op. 2 of Johannes Brahms was written in Hamburg, Germany in 1852, and published the year after.  Despite being his second published work, it was actually composed before his Piano Sonata No. 1, but was published later because Brahms recognized the importance of an inaugural publication and felt that the C major sonata was of higher quality.  It was sent along with his first sonata to Breitkopf und Härtel with a letter of recommendation from Robert Schumann.  Schumann had already praised Brahms enthusiastically, and the sonata shows signs of an effort to impress, with its technical demands and highly dramatic nature.  It was dedicated to Clara Schumann. Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven.  The name Pastoral or Pastorale became known through A. Cranz publishing of Beethoven's work, but was first coined by a London publisher, Broderip & Wilkinson.  While not as famous as its immediate predecessor, Piano Sonata No. 14, it is generally admired for its intricate technicality as well as for its beauty.  The sonata takes roughly twenty-five minutes to play with its intended repeats. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, K.  279 / 189d (1774), is a piano sonata in three movements.  It was composed when Mozart was only 18 years old and is the first of a set of his 18 piano sonata.  All but 2 of the sonatas, No. 8 in A minor and No. 14 in C minor are in a major key.  Also, the first several sonatas seem to follow the cycle of fifths, to the flat side first (No. 1 in C major, No. 2 in F major, No. 3 in B-flat major, No. 4 in E-flat major) and then to the sharp side (No. 5 in G major, No. 6 in D major). Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3, is a sonata written for solo piano, composed in 1795.  It is dedicated to Joseph Haydn and is often referred to as Beethoven's first virtuosic piano sonata.  The three Opus 2 sonatas all contain four movements each, an unusual length which seems to show that Beethoven was aspiring towards composing a symphony.  It is both the weightiest and longest of the three Opus 2 sonatas, lasting over 25 minutes, presenting many difficulties, including difficult trills, awkward hand movements, and forearm rotation.  It is Beethoven's second longest piano sonata in his early period, only to Beethoven's Grand Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 7, published a year later.
Answer: 1943