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Beethoven dedicated this sonata to composer Joseph Haydn.
A typical performance of it lasts from 16 to 20 minutes. The first movement begins with a bouncy theme that hints at seriousness but remains rather bright and energetic. It must be noted that it seems to have been lifted from the finale of the Mozart Symphony No. Two more themes appear, the former a bit more serious and darker.
The development section turns more intense, focusing on the drive and darker aspects of the thematic material. Ultimately this Allegretto con brio is solidly constructed, if unadventurous, and its thematic similarity to the Mozart Symphony serves in the end to illustrate the quite different ways the two composers treated the same material. The melody is serenely joyful in its pristine Classicism, and while it is rather simple and direct, it is also effective in capturing a mood of ecstasy and bliss.
The Menuetto third movement Allegretto is robust and not intended to sound danceable.
It is full of color and features an attractive trio, after which the main material is reprised. The finale Prestissimo may be the most Beethovenian movement here. It begins with a manic rush of energy, the theme seemingly in frantic pursuit of something elusive. The alternate subject is playful and comparatively dainty, featuring upper register sonorities that could hardly offer greater contrast.
This movement is in sonata form, and so after the reappearance of the main theme, there is a quite effective development section, which ends as it sort of grows back into the recapitulation. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.
The fourth movement, like the first and third, is in F minor, and is built using a modified sonata form (the development is. The Op. 27 No. 1 sonata is laid out in four movements: The third movement is slow in tempo and features a lyrical, noble theme.
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The Complete Sonatas [Warner Classics]. In this second codetta and in the second theme Beethoven makes interesting use of mode mixture as the right hand parts borrows from the parallel minor.
Beethoven's sketches for the first, second, and final movements survive, but the original autograph copy is lost. Where the development would be expected to start, there is a completely new theme in A-flat major , with the first respite from the eighth-note triplets. When it returns following the trio section, the left hand plays staccato and the notes of the right hand part still legato are offset half a beat later. See Sonate per pianoforte for complete volumes including preface. Friedrich Gulda plays Beethoven.
The development opens with the initial theme, but is mostly dedicated to the second theme and its eighth-note accompaniment. The retransition to the main theme uses its sixteenth-note triplet. The recapitulation repeats the material from the exposition without much change, except that it stays in F minor throughout. There is a short coda. A tense, agitated feel is ubiquitous throughout the movement.
Within the entire movement there seem to be two primary themes, with the remaining melodies simply making up the rest of score. The first theme consists of bars 1 to 8 which then repeats themselves, with very slight variations, in bars to It is variated in a bigger scale from bars 49 to The second theme lasts from 20 to 35, and like the first theme is then restated in slight variations, in 55 to It is also restated in bars to This movement is in ternary form.
This is followed by a more agitated transitional passage in D minor accompanied by quiet parallel thirds, followed by a passage full of thirty-second notes in C major. This leads back to a more embellished form of the F major theme, which is followed by an F major variation of the C major section. This Adagio is the earliest composition by Beethoven now in general circulation; it was adapted from the slow movement of the piano quartet in C major from The third movement, a minuet in F minor, is conventional in form. There follows a short final section, marked Presto, based on a tightly compressed version of the main theme.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved 7 January There are precedents from Haydn; his 31st and 46th symphonies. Piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven.
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