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- Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ('Pathétique')
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Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 is commonly known as Sonata Pathétique. He composed this sonata at the age of 27, still in his first, classical period. It was written in 1798, published the following year. The Pathétique piano sonata made an immediate sensation all over Europe.
- Pathétique
- The Moonlight
- Waldstein
- Appassionata
- Hammerklavier
- Piano Sonatas, Opp.109, 110, 111
To single out just a few. The most important of the early Sonatas is the Pathétique. For the first time Beethoven uses a slow introduction, and an introduction of such weight you know something truly significant is going on. The opening chord breaks once and for all with Haydn and Mozart. You are in Beethoven’s world now. Among Beethoven’s few clos...
The most famous movement of any of the 32 Piano Sonatas is the opening movement of The Moonlight – the Sonata he composed for the woman he wanted to marry, Giulietta Guicciardi [see Chapter 6, Beethoven’s Women]. For the first time he put the slow movement first (something neither Haydn or Mozart ever did). Just like the opening bars of the Fifth S...
We already know the origin of the Waldstein from Chapter 3, The Spaniard. The gloriously spacious theme of the final movement is prefaced by a mysterious, fragmented middle movement, which presages it perfectly. That was not Beethoven’s original intention. The middle movement was a long complete piece with an instantly catchy tune. He realised it w...
Wagner’s favourite was the Appassionata. He loved playing it, and marvelled at the theme of the first movement rising from the depths. Once again, as with the Pathétique, the middle movement is simplicity itself, almost a theme on a single note. The entire work has such nobility and passion it is small wonder the publisher gave it the name by which...
We come to the most monumental of all the Piano Sonatas, the Hammerklavier. This was the work that Beethoven composed at the height of the traumatic court case, when he was composing little else. What spurred him to do it? More than likely the thoroughly prosaic fact that at the beginning of the year he had received a remarkable gift. The famous Lo...
The Hammerklavier is often taken to signify the start of Beethoven’s Late Period. Certainly everything that now follows – Missa Solemnis, Ninth Symphony, Piano Sonatas, String Quartets– are on an entirely different plane to what has gone before. Profoundly deaf, deeply miserable, failing health – and the greatest works of all. The final set of Pian...
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ('Pathétique') This famous sonata was written in 1798, titled the Grande donate pathétique by the publisher - much to Beethoven's liking.
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein” (1805) Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Major , Op. 54 (1806) Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor , Op. 57, “Appassionata” (1807)
- Betsy Schwarm
Article History. Byname of: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13. Beethoven, Ludwig van: Pathétique Sonata. Excerpt from the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata (Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13). (more) Pathétique Sonata, sonata for piano and orchestra by Ludwig van Beethoven, published in 1799.
- Betsy Schwarm
Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major; Opus 49: Two Piano Sonatas (composed 1795–6, published 1805) Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor; Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major; Opus 7: Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major ("Grand Sonata") (1797) Opus 10: Three Piano Sonatas (1798) Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D ...
Beethoven 's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, known as the Waldstein, is one of the three most notable sonatas of his middle period (the other two being the Appassionata, Op. 57, and Les Adieux, Op. 81a ). Completed in summer 1804 and surpassing Beethoven's previous piano sonatas in its scope, the Waldstein is a key early work of ...
