Classical Composer: | Beethoven, Ludwig van |
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Work: | Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101 |
Year Composed: | 1816 |
Instrumentation: | pf |
Publishers: |
Breitkopf & Härtel Universal Edition Oxford University Press G. Henle Verlag |
Duration: | 00:20:00 |
Period: | Classical (1750-1830) |
Work Category: | Instrumental |
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Beethoven completed his Sonata in A Major, Opus 101, in November, 1816. It was published early the following year with a dedication to Beroness Dorotnea von Ertmann. The sonata starts with a theme, to be played mit der innigsten Empfindung, the sentiment demanded also for the first movement of the preceding sonata, the form defying contemporary expectations. There follows a lively march in F major with a B flat trio section and a brief slow movement, to be played using single strings of the piano, gradually increased, as was possible on instruments of the time. A snatch of the main them, of the first movement intervenes to introduce a movement that turns into a fugue of proper formal complexity, making full use of the extended range of the newly enlarged keyboard of the time, a foretaste of the still more remarkable treatment of the piano sonata that was to follow.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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