Piano Sonata No. 28 (Beethoven)

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Handwritten draft of Beethoven's fourth movement

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101 was composed between 1813 and 1816 and was published in Vienna in 1817. It is dedicated to his student Dorothea von Ertmann .

Like all of Beethoven's late sonatas, it refuses to conform to the formal conventions customary for this genre. As before in the Sonata Op. 90, the composer uses German performance titles, under which he puts the conventional Italian ones.
The performance lasts approx. 23 minutes.

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First sentence

Beginning of the first movement

A very lyrical, formally blurred sonata movement is somewhat lively and with the most intimate feeling . Instead of in A major, it begins on the dominant , which remains the actual tonal center in the further course. The movement remains almost entirely in its initial, sensitive peacefulness, only the end of the recapitulation with the fortissimo chords in violent dissonance indicate the conflicts in the second movement.

Second sentence

This one is lively. March-like ( Vivace alla marcia ) written in the distant, major third related F major . Beethoven uses string quartet- like composition techniques, despite the wild and uncontrolled figures, the march repeatedly breaks off into a piano . A canon-like trio is attached to the main part , but it is not designated as such and represents a small sonata movement in itself. After repeating the main part, the slow third movement follows, which is also the introduction to the finale.

Third sentence

The third movement is slow and longing ; many performers believe that they are hearing baroque echoes of Georg Friedrich Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach . After the chromatic dissolution of all harmonies at the end of the short intermezzo there is the “memory” of the first movement, which, however , ends after a few bars in an accelerando , then presto , and three fermata trills. Under these trills then the downward leap in the third as the announcement of the Allegro ( speed, but not too much, but with determination ).

Fourth sentence

The finale is again in A major, is a sonata movement and uses polyphonic compositional techniques throughout. The development forms a fugato , which is one of the most demanding sections of Beethoven's piano art, and is possibly only surpassed in difficulty by the fugue finale of the hammer piano sonata. The movement is also characterized by particular difficulty in handling the instrument ( piano, ma espressivo in the deepest bass, quarters in one hand, trills and melody in one hand). The movement ends after a long pianissimo coda with low, trilling sixteenth notes, in a furious A major chord two-beat.

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