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Ludwig van Beethoven [n 1] (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music.
It is a grand contrapuntal movement in which Beethoven explored the newest keyboard set in his command, using the lowest E (E 1) on the piano (marked "Contra E"), at the retransition and near the end of the movement. This movement is the longest and most technically challenging one in the sonata, including a dense and 100-bar-long fugato in ...
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
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]
Ludwig van Beethoven's Opus 1 is a set of three piano trios (written for piano, violin, and cello), first performed in 1795 in the house of Prince Lichnowsky, to whom they are dedicated. [1] The trios were published in 1795.
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven, completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil Countess Julie "Giulietta" Guicciardi. [b] Although known throughout the world as the Moonlight Sonata (German: Mondscheinsonate), it was not Beethoven who named it ...
In 1816 Beethoven sought advice on a German word that could replace pianoforte (or fortepiano), and after considering various possibilities chose Hammerklavier (literally "hammer-keyboard"). [4] Beethoven titled the work "Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier", meaning "Grand sonata for the piano".
Ludwig van Beethoven's 13th and 14th (the famous "Moonlight") Piano Sonatas are both headed with "Sonata quasi una fantasia". Franz Schubert composed the Fantasie in C major nicknamed the Wanderer Fantasy for solo piano and the Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands.