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Portrait of Beethoven as a young man (1801) by Carl Traugott Riedel (1769–1832) Beethoven was born in Bonn in 1770, about 14 years after Mozart (born Salzburg, 1756). In 1781, during Beethoven's childhood, Mozart had moved from Salzburg to Vienna, the Austrian imperial capital, to pursue his career. While Bonn was politically and culturally ...
These early efforts can be seen in a set of three piano sonatas (WoO 47) and piano quartets (WoO 36) that Beethoven wrote before 1792. The Quartets, for instance, are each specifically modelled after three Violin Sonatas Mozart published in 1781 – K 296, 379 and 380 – and Beethoven would later draw upon this familiarity in the composition ...
Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas together form one of the most important collections of work in the history of music.
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Yale University Press, Nov 30, 2021 - Music - 336 pages. A comprehensive and immersive survey of thirty-five Beethoven piano sonatas. Beethoven’s piano sonatas are among the iconic...
Sonata ( / səˈnɑːtə /; Italian: [soˈnaːta], pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare [archaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by suonare ], "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung. [1] : 17 The term evolved through the history of music ...
Mar 20, 2020 · Ever since 1861, when Sir Charles Hallé performed all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas on a landmark concert series in London, pianists have contemplated these canonical masterpieces with almost religious awe. Indeed, the late–19th-century virtuoso Hans von Bülow—who thought nothing of playing Beethoven’s five notoriously difficult late-period sonatas in a single sitting—referred to the ...
