Piano Sonata No. 5 (Prokofiev)

[T]he neoclassical streak of Prokofiev’s music is expressed in mock Baroque or Classical textures, such as an allusion to Alberti bass in the finale of Sonata No. 5.

— Piano Sonata No. 5 (Prokofiev)

The Fifth Sonata, written in Paris, differs significantly from both the early sonatas and the later ones. Its musical language shows Prokofiev in his more experimental phase, as do his many other works of this period.

— Piano Sonata No. 5 (Prokofiev)

The Fifth Sonata, the Quintet and the Second Symphony, continuing from the Sarcasms through the Scythian Suite and Seven, They Are Seven, were the most chromatic of all my compositions. This was the effect of the Parisian atmosphere where complex patterns and dissonances were the accepted thing, and which fostered my predilection for complex thinking.

— Piano Sonata No. 5 (Prokofiev)