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Allegro vivace A typical performance takes about 8-9 minutes. The common practice of leaving out long repeated sections, such as the development and recapitulation in the first movement, would make two or three minutes' difference to the total duration.
Vivace; Un poco adagio; Rondo all'Ungarese; The first and second movements contain cadenzas. The original scores of this cadenza, handwritten by Haydn, have survived. The work is scored for solo keyboard and an orchestra consisting of two oboes, two horns in D, and strings. Nowadays, it mostly is played on piano.
The sonata has three movements: . Allegro assai; Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso – in E-flat major; Allegro vivace; This sonata is characteristic of early/middle Beethoven in its solid sonata structure, just beginning to get adventurous in syncopation, with some extraordinary off beat sforzandi.
The composer also employs comic elements, such as a "tipsy" middle section in the second dance, in which the ensemble abruptly slows from a lively vivace to meno mosso (quarter note = 112), whereupon a single bassoon plays a plodding solo marked by upward and downward slides, or glissandi, as well as staggering, syncopated rhythms.
The Opus 31 works are the first examples of the new and unconventional ideas Beethoven adopted in an attempt to make a name for himself. For example, in the first movement , unlike most sonata allegro forms in which the second theme of the exposition is dominant , the second theme is in B major and B minor , the mediant of the original key.
Un poco adagio - Allegro vivace (F ♯ minor) Aria: Senza passione, ma espressivo (A major) Scherzo: Allegrissimo (F ♯ minor) – Intermezzo: Lento. Alla burla, ma pomposo (D major) – Tempo I; Finale: Allegro un poco maestoso (F ♯ minor, ending in the tonic major)
It has been used as a signature theme for the 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys as well as a model for music in a scene in The Simpsons episode "Yokel Chords". [ citation needed ] References
The expressive Andante theme alternates between the Secondo and Primo, segueing into the virtuosic Allegro assai vivace movement with a rush of scales. All fingering, metronome marks, and notational omissions have been supplemented by the editors. Allegro brillant is considered one of the most challenging pieces in the entire piano duet repertoire.