Allegro molto e con brio beethoven biography
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Piano Sonata No. 4 in E flat, Op. 7
Allegro molto e con brio
Largo, con gran espressione
Allegro
Rondo: Poco allegretto e grazioso
With each new sonata written in the 1790s, Beethoven pushed further against the received bounds of the medium. Op. 7, his seventh, if one includes three works written at the age of 12 (catalogued as WoO 47 and not generally included in the 'canon'), was the largest to date, lasting half an hour and thus longer even than the Appassionata. It was written in 1796-7 for one of his most gifted piano pupils, the young Countess Babette von Keglevics. She lived so close to the composer in Vienna that he is said to have turned up to her lessons quite often in his slippers.
But there is nothing so laid-back about his E flat major Sonata. The use of repeated notes as a feature in three of the four movements gives the music a momentum of its own, as well as a unifying feel. The opening Allegro molto e con brio is one of Beethoven's broadest sonata structures, yet also one of his most virtuosic. Its mood-changes are perfectly placed and its themes make memorable use of the 6/8 metre, particularly when he affects to ignore the bar line in the coda.
The slow movement provides a change of mood, in key (C major) as much as in texture, with, after the
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Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)
1798 sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798 when the composer was 27 years old and was published in 1799. It has remained one of his most celebrated compositions.[1] Beethoven dedicated the work to his friend Prince Karl von Lichnowsky.[2] Although commonly thought to be one of the few works to be named by the composer himself, it was actually named Grande sonate pathétique (to Beethoven's liking) by the publisher, who was impressed by the sonata's tragic sonorities.[3]
Movements
[edit]In its entirety, encompassing all three movements, the work takes approximately 18-20 minutes to perform.[4]
The sonata consists of three movements:
Grave – Allegro di molto e con brio
[edit]The first movement is in sonata form. It begins with a slow introductory theme, marked Grave.
The exposition, marked Allegro di molto con brio, is in 2
2 time (alla breve) in the home key of C minor and features three themes. Theme 1 features an aggressive rocket theme covering two octaves, accompanied with constant tremolo octaves in the left hand.
Beethoven then makes use
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