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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]
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 ...
The Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14, No. 1, is an early-period work by Ludwig van Beethoven, dedicated to Baroness Josefa von Braun, one of his patrons at that time. It was composed in 1798 and arranged for string quartet by the composer in 1801 ( Hess 34), the result containing more quartet-like passagework and in the more comfortable ...
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]
Beethoven Piano Sonata 28 beginning. Schiff remarked: "If I go into the next sonata it sounds like a continuation of the previous one." [14] A full performance of the sonata takes about 13–14 minutes. There are no repeats in either movement. At the time Beethoven composed the sonata, the lowest note on the piano was an F 1.
The late piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven usually refer to the last five piano sonatas the composer composed during his late period. Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101; Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier" Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110
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
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.