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A lecture by András Schiff on Beethoven's piano sonata Op. 81a; Piano Sonata No. 26: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Piano sonata no. 26 in E♭ major, op. 81a (interactive score) on Verovio Humdrum Viewer; Recording by Paavali Jumppanen, piano from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Articles
The sonata's name comes from Beethoven's occasional practice of using German rather than Italian words for musical terminology. 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]
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.
Like Mozart's, Beethoven's musical talent was recognized at a young age, [3] and these three piano sonatas give an early glimpse of the composer's abilities, as well as his boldness. Beethoven was writing in a form usually attempted by older, more mature composers, [4] as the sonata was a cornerstone of Classical piano literature. Since they ...
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Artur Schnabel, 1906. Austrian pianist Artur Schnabel was the first pianist to record all of Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. [1] The recordings were made in Abbey Road Studios in London on a C. Bechstein grand piano [2] from 1932 to 1935, [3] [4] [5] seven years after electrical recording was invented. [4]
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