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Completed in summer 1804 and surpassing Beethoven's previous piano sonatas in its scope, the Waldstein is a key early work of Beethoven's "Heroic" decade (1803–1812) and set a standard for piano composition in the grand manner.
Count Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel von Waldstein (1762–1823), German noble, patron of Beethoven to whom the sonata is dedicated Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein (1759–1823), Austrian soldier, explorer and naturalist, older brother of the above
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]
She was born on 30 May 1761 in Vienna, as daughter of Count Emanuel Philibert von Waldstein-Wartenberg (1731–1775) and sister of Count Ferdinand von Waldstein, early patron of Ludwig van Beethoven. [2] Aged 18, she married the 47-year-old widowed Spanish Marquis of Santa Cruz José Joaquín de Silva-Bazán. She followed her husband to Spain ...
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The beginning of the first movement. Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the Appassionata, meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the Waldstein, Op. 53 and Les Adieux, Op. 81a); it was composed during 1804 and 1805, and perhaps 1806, and Beethoven dedicated it to cellist ...
Eleonora Czartoryska - Manyoki. Eleonora Czartoryska (1710-1795), [1] was a Polish Princess, born Countess von Waldstein-Wartenberg.She was the ruler of the city of Radzymin from 1770 to 1790, where she built a palace and a park, commissioned a church designed by Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer and wrote a unique collection of laws on the city's governmental principles.
Without paying heed to his instructions, however, I laid Beethoven's works on the piano, in the order of their appearance, and found in them such consolation and pleasure as no other composer ever vouchsafed me." [7]