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Efrem Zimbalist & Harold Bauer playing Theme and Variations from "The Kreutzer Sonata" by Beethoven (1926). In the composer's 1803 sketchbook, the work was titled "Sonata per il Pianoforte ed uno violino obligato in uno stile molto concertante come d’un concerto" ("Sonata for the piano and one obligatory violin in a highly concertante style like a concerto"). [1]
Ludwig van Beethoven composed the following violin sonatas between 1797 and 1812. Violin Sonata in A major (Beethoven), Hess 46 (fragmentary) Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 12, No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 12, No. 2; Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 12, No. 3; Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23; Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24 ...
The Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23 is a three-movement work for violin and piano composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1801. It was published in October that year, and dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries .
The Violin Sonata No. 6 of Ludwig van Beethoven in A major, the first of his Opus 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia. It has three movements: Allegro; Adagio molto espressivo; Allegretto con variazioni; The work takes approximately 22 minutes to perform.
A lecture by András Schiff on Beethoven's piano sonata Op. 28; Good informative site with plenty of detail on this sonata, as well as other sonatas; Online score, posted by Indiana University School of Music. Each score page is a 200 kB gif image. For a public domain recording of this sonata visit Musopen
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]
Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 [1] – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La mort d'Abel (1810). He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven 's Violin Sonata No. 9 , Op. 47 (1803), known as the Kreutzer Sonata , though he never played the work.
Artur Schnabel, 1906. Austrian pianist Artur Schnabel was the first pianist to record all of Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. [1] The recordings were made in Abbey Road Studios in London on a C. Bechstein grand piano [2] from 1932 to 1935, [3] [4] [5] seven years after electrical recording was invented. [4]