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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]
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]
In 2010 Willems recorded Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. [12] In 2013, after he recorded Beethoven's C minor variations, Andante favori, Für Elise, the 3 Electoral "Kurfürstensonaten" sonatas and the reconstructed "Fantasy Sonata in D", the ABC released all the Willems Beethoven recordings in a 14-CD box-set "The Beethoven-Willems Collection ...
Piano Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven) Piano Sonata No. 10 (Beethoven) ... Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas This page was last ...
The second movement is a variation to the ending of the popular patriots song "Rule, Britannia!" (which Beethoven wrote a set of variations for piano in 1803). According to Carl Czerny , Beethoven himself singled out this sonata and the " Appassionata " Sonata as favourites (once written, the " Hammerklavier " Sonata" would also become one of ...
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
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.
A lecture by András Schiff on Beethoven's piano sonata Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 109: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Alfred Brendel: Notes on a complete recording of Beethoven's piano works; Manuscript of Op. 109 at the Library of Congress. (Note: although the title of this web page and Beethoven's own title ...