Piano trio op.70.2 (Beethoven)

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The Piano Trio in E flat major op.70.2 is a chamber music composition for piano , violin and cello by Ludwig van Beethoven and was published in 1809 together with the Piano Trio op.70.1 .

Emergence

The two piano trios were written in Heiligenstadt near Vienna in the context of Beethoven's 5th and 6th symphonies .

To the music

First movement: Poco sostenuto - Allegro, ma non troppo

The opening movement, in E flat major, begins with a slow, canonical introduction, which musicologist Wolfgang Osthoff associated with the style antico , especially since, according to Osthoff, Beethoven had planned the introduction in alla breve time.

The slow introduction is followed in a flowing transition by a main dance theme with an introductory motif, which music critic ETA Hoffmann called "chorale".

The motif of the introduction is varied in the following page topic.

The Allegro reminded ETA Hoffmann of the Symphony No. 39 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , but he only related this to the theme, since the further development of the theme in the trio can be traced back to Beethoven's genius.

Second movement: Allegretto

Instead of the usual slow movement, the second movement of the trio is an Allegretto in C major. Two parts, one in C major in the style of a gavotte and one in C minor, are juxtaposed and varied.

The C minor part stands out from the Gavotte character of the C major part in that the focus is not on syncopation , but on sforzati . This led musicologist Alexander Ringer to compare this sentence with Molière's comedy Der Bürger als Edelmann .

According to Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny , Beethoven wrote this movement "when he was listening to Croatian music in Hungary" .

Because of the playful nature of this movement, ETA Hoffmann compared it to the Andante movements in Joseph Haydn's symphonies .

Third movement: Allegretto, ma non troppo

The third movement is in A flat major and in 3/4 time. Of the two main cantable themes, one is a minuet . In the second main theme, piano and strings alternate.

Music critic Johann Friedrich Reichardt wrote about this movement: “Beethoven played very masterfully, very enthusiastically, new trios that he recently made, in which such a heavenly cantabulous movement occurred (in three-four time and in A flat major) that I have never heard from him , it lifts and melts my soul as often as I think about it « .

Fourth movement: Finale. Allegro

The finale in E flat major is marked by unexpected changes and has a playful, humorous character.

effect

Music critic ETA Hoffmann was enthusiastic about the piano trios op. 70. In his review in the Allgemeine Musikischen Zeitung , Hoffmann lamented the "fashion [...] of using music as a side effect to drive away boredom in society" and warned against the fact that occasional musicians who could only cope with easy and pleasing music could be overwhelmed by Beethoven's Trios op. 70.

literature

supporting documents

further reading

  • Peter Cahn : On Beethoven's Piano Trio in E flat major Op. 70 No. 2 , In: Beethoven's Piano Trios , Symposion Munich, ed. by Rudolf Bockholdt and Petra weber-Bockholdt, pp. 130–144.
  • Wolfgang Osthoff : The slow introductions to Beethoven's piano trios (op.1 no.2, op.121a, op.70 no.2) . In: Rudolf Bockholdt and Petra Weber-Bockholdt (eds.): Beethoven's piano trios. Symposium Munich 1990. Munich 1992. pp. 119–129.
  • Lothar Schmidt: 2 piano trios in D major "Ghost Trio" and E flat major op. 70. In: Interpretations. 1994, Vol. 1, pp. 523-531.
  • Alexander L. Ringer: A »Trio Caracteristico«? Marginal glosses to Beethoven's op. 70 No. 2. In: Annegrit Laubenthal (Ed.): Studies on the history of music. A commemorative publication for Ludwig Finscher. Kassel etc. 1995, pp. 457-465.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Osthoff : The slow introductions to Beethoven's piano trios (op.1 no.2, op.121, op.70 no.2) . In: Rudolf Bockholdt and Petra Weber-Bockholdt (eds.): Beethoven's piano trios. Symposium Munich 1990. Munich 1992. pp. 119–129
  2. a b Ludwig van Beethoven. The works in the mirror of its time. Collected concert reports and reviews up to 1830 , ed. and introduced by Stefan Kunze in collaboration with Theodor Schmitt , Andreas Traub and Gerda Burkard, Laaber, 1987, p. 135
  3. Alexander Ringer: A "Trio Caracteristico"? Marginal glosses to Beethoven's op. 70 No. 2 , in: Studies on the history of music. A Festschrift for Ludwig Finscher , ed. by Annegrit Laubenthal, Kassel etc., 1995, pp. 457-465
  4. Carl Czerny : Memories from my life , ed. by Walter Kolneder, Strasbourg, 1968, p. 50
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Reichardt : Letters concerning the music , ed. by Grita Herre and Walther Siegmund-Schultze, Leipzig, 1976, pp. 278f.
  6. Allgemeine Musical Zeitung , (1813), Col. 141–154