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The Variations and Fugue for Piano in E ♭ major, Op. 35 are a set of fifteen variations (plus three "bonus" variations) for solo piano composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1802. They are commonly referred to as the Eroica Variations because a different set of variations on the opening bass line section were used as the finale of his Symphony ...
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2, No. 2, was written in 1795 and dedicated to Joseph Haydn. It was published simultaneously with his first and third sonatas in 1796 . Donald Francis Tovey wrote, "The second sonata is flawless in execution and entirely beyond the range of Haydn and Mozart in harmonic and dramatic ...
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote 32 mature piano sonatas between 1795 and 1822. (He also wrote 3 juvenile sonatas at the age of 13 [1] and one unfinished sonata, WoO. 51.)Although originally not intended to be a meaningful whole, as a set they comprise one of the most important collections of works in the history of music. [2]
The Piano Sonata No. 2 was written during a time where the sonata lost its overpowering dominance. While the sonatas of Beethoven and Mozart comprised a considerable portion of their compositional output, this is not true of the next generation of composers: Franz Liszt only wrote one sonata among his dozens of instrumental compositions, Robert Schumann seven (eight if including the Fantasie ...
Piano Sonata No.2 op.17; Nikolai Kapustin. Piano Sonata No. 1 "Sonata-Fantasy" (1984) Nikolai Roslavets. Piano Sonata No. 1 (1914) — Published by Muzyka, 1990 (edited by Eduard Babasyan) Samuil Feinberg. Piano Sonata No. 3 op.3 in G Minor; Vasily Kalafati. Piano Sonata op.4 no.2 in D Minor; Alexei Stanchinsky. Piano Sonata No. 2 in G major ...
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
In music, Op. 35 stands for Opus number 35. Compositions that are assigned this number include: Arensky – Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky; Barber – A Hand of Bridge; Beethoven – Eroica Variations; Brahms – Variations on a Theme of Paganini; Chausson – String Quartet; Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2; Fauré – Madrigal; Hába ...
Like Mozart's, Beethoven's musical talent was recognized at a young age, [3] and these three piano sonatas give an early glimpse of the composer's abilities, as well as his boldness. Beethoven was writing in a form usually attempted by older, more mature composers, [4] as the sonata was a cornerstone of Classical piano literature. Since they ...