Piano Sonata No. 11 (Beethoven)
The Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed between 1799 and 1800. It is dedicated to Count Johann Georg von Browne and is at the end of Beethoven's “youthful” sonata work , the so-called “first creative period”. While the 11th piano sonata was being written, Beethoven was already working on his 1st piano concerto .
construction
- First movement, Allegro con brio, B flat major, 4/4 time, 199 bars
- Second movement, Adagio con molto espressione, E flat major, 9/8 time, 77 bars
- Third movement, Menuetto / Minore, B flat major / G minor, 3/4 time, 46 bars
- Fourth movement, Rondo, Allegretto, B flat major, 2/4 time, 199 bars
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The key and the cheerful intonation of the 1st movement are reminiscent of the 2nd piano concerto composed at the same time . The broken chord figures of conduct can be found similarly in the Piano Sonata no. 21 ( "Waldstein Sonata") and the Piano Sonata no. 23 (so-called "Appassionata"). In contrast to some of the other Beethoven sonatas, the first movement has neither a second development nor a coda ; he lives from the inner dynamic that pianists like Schnabel , Richter and Gulda make audible.
2nd movement
The second movement is in the subdominant key of E flat major .
3rd movement
The third movement, a minuet , is in B-Dur , the trio ( Minore ) in the relative key G minor .
4th movement
The Rondo is based on the rough outline A -B A C- A -B A -Coda but designed each of these parts in ever new variations of individually. Feinberg , Gieseking and Arrau have shown that you can play the middle voices and thirty-second notes clearly and still “quite quickly” .
Analysis and reception
The structure and sequence of the movements correspond to the classical sonata form . The Sonata is linked to that of Mozart and Beethoven's teacher Haydn embossed Viennese classicism to the 18th century.
Denis Matthews stated that the sonata was "surprisingly free of surprises" . Joachim Kaiser sees it as a “male masterpiece that is neither pathetic nor elegiac” .
The comparatively lower popularity of Piano Sonata No. 11 could be due to the concertante, but musically rather “harmless” corner movements .
Beethoven himself stated that the first movement had "washed itself ".
See also
Web links
- Piano Sonata No. 11 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c J. Kaiser: Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas and their interpreters . Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-10-038601-9
- ↑ quoted from Kaiser