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The Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101 is the first of the series of Beethoven's "Late Period" sonatas (although sometimes Op. 90 is considered the first), when his music moved in a new direction toward a more personal, intimate, sometimes even introspective, realm of freedom and fantasy. In this period he had achieved a complete mastery of form ...
A lecture by András Schiff on Beethoven's piano sonata Op. 28; Good informative site with plenty of detail on this sonata, as well as other sonatas; Online score, posted by Indiana University School of Music. Each score page is a 200 kB gif image. For a public domain recording of this sonata visit Musopen
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote 32 mature piano sonatas between 1795 and 1822. (He also wrote 3 juvenile sonatas at the age of 13 [1] and one unfinished sonata, WoO. 51.)Although originally not intended to be a meaningful whole, as a set they comprise one of the most important collections of works in the history of music. [2]
It began in January 1932, when the Sonata No. 31 in A ♭ major (Op. 110) was the first to be successfully recorded. [8] The final recordings were made in November 1935, and the project culminated with Sonata No. 25 in G major (Op. 79). [9] The Beethoven Society began distributing Schnabel's recordings in March 1932, issuing 12 volumes through ...
The late piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven usually refer to the last five piano sonatas the composer composed during his late period. Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101; Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier" Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110
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Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement (Scarlatti, Liszt, Scriabin, Medtner, Berg), others with two movements (Haydn, Beethoven), some contain five (Brahms' Third Piano Sonata, Czerny's Piano Sonata No. 1, Godowsky's Piano Sonata) or even more movements.
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