LECTURE NOTES: None of the 4 movements are in sonata form in this sonata. This is unprecedented. No breaks between the movements. The first Beethoven piano sonata that still got its original manuscript. ----------1st movt: theme & 5 variations-------------- 1. The only sonata prior to this that starts with theme & variations is Mozart's piano sonata No.11, K331-"Alla Turca". 2. @7:21 a variation within a variation 3. @7:43 second part of the theme: 10 bars, asymmetrical 4. @10:21 hemi demi semiquavers: 1/64 notes 5. Beethoven uses different registers like a a string quartet. Very often we find in piano sonatas 4-part, 4-voiced structures reminiscent of a string quartet. 6. @11:35 second variation: pointillistic. Theme in bass, and it's complimented in the right hand with syncopations. 7. @13:17 third variation in F flat minor, a very usual key. Foreshadowing the funeral march. 8. @14:18 Sforzandi within piano in the bass, menacing 9. @14:49 new harmonic device 10. @15:42 fourth variation: different registers embodying different instruments 11. @16:40 fifth variation: like an apotheosis. New sonority in Beethoven sonata. Nature sounds. The notes of the melody are cleverly concealed. 12. @17:23 he's hiding the tune in the middle voice. 13. @17:46 We start this variation with triplets, then hemi demi semiquavers: 1/64 notes 14. @18:52 coda. Octaves in the bass are like cello & double bass pizzicato 15. this movement mirrors the structure of the sonata form: 🔸1st movement: theme + variation 1&2 🔸2nd slow movement: variation 3 in minor 🔸3rd Scherzo movement: variation 4 🔸finale + coda: variation 5 --------------2nd movt: scherzo------------ 16. @23:00 theme goes in the bass, with a counterpoint above. Then it's turns around. 17. @23:28 trio: swinging like a Waltz or a Ländler. 18. @24:03 an arch that's 16 bars long, what Wagner called in his music, "the endless melody" --------------3rd movt-------------- 19. the only Beethoven sonata Chopin ever played in public. 20. @28:16 these chords are marked with a dot. They have to be played Seco(short and very staccato), dryly without the pedal. At funerals in Beethoven's time, to achieve the dry damp sound they covered the drums with a thick black cotton cloth 21. @30:52 the procession is coming nearer and nearer as it reaches us. For the first time we have real fortissimos. 22. @31:15 orchestrated middle section: drum roll in pedal, trumpets & horns without. Basic harmonies: tonic, dominant & subdominant 23. @33:03 coda over a pedal point 24. @33:20 dissonant Sforzando, like a knife in the heart 25. @33:30 Neapolitan harmony --------------4th movt: rondo-------------- 26. quiet convos between people on their way home from the funeral(even though IMHO the autumn rain on the grave is more fitting)

Excellent lecture - thanks for preserving and sharing it.

Thank you so much for uploding this masterclass

@helloitismetomato

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome 😊 They were on KZread before but the account that had them got deleted for some reason

just wonderful - thank you so much. I love this sonata very very much.

I listen to Beethoven by Schiff always I can and I discover new things each time.

I’m glad they are back! Thank you!

@helloitismetomato

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the old uploads were by someone else, I put these new ones up because I missed them too lol

The original funeral march is in A flat minor. Lebert/Bulow changes it to the more easily read F minor. Same notes.

@TARamkumar

3 жыл бұрын

28:02 28:59 30:51 31:49 32:11 33:03

Interesting thoughts on the last movement - Richter

@stefanufer608

3 жыл бұрын

Richter would have disagreed, judging from his recording of it!

@ThePianoenergy

2 жыл бұрын

@@stefanufer608 Maybe Beethoven would have disagreed too, as he wrote "Allegro" which is usually a fast tempo, especially in his earlier works.