Violin Sonata No. 6 (Beethoven)

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The Violin Sonata no. 6 in A major, Op. 30 No. 1 is a sonata for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven .

Emergence

The violin sonata op. 30,1 was composed together with the two other violin sonatas of op. 30, No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2 and No. 8 in G major Op. 30 No. 3 , in 1802.

To the music

As in previous violin sonatas, Beethoven shows in Sonatas op. 30 the striving for further development that is typical of his entire oeuvre, which is expressed on the one hand in the technical demands and on the other in a further developed interweaving of the compositional levels.

The three violin sonatas op 30 are equally applied as the three piano sonatas published shortly afterwards. Op 31st : in both cases, an expressive piece of music in a minor key of two framing, lighter pieces will be accompanied in the major.

1st movement: Allegro

The mood of the main topic and the secondary topic give the sentence an enthusiastic character. The secondary theme starting from bar 34 is a waltz.

Due to the modulation of the movement, which was made necessary by its key sequence, the movement made a jagged impression on the recipient. It »crumbles« , according to Beethoven researcher Alexander Wheelock Thayer , »into too many little sentences that are closed against each other [...]. Despite all the art and every fine detail, the overall impression remains that of a mosaic-like composition of the entire sonata. "

2nd movement: Adagio molto espressivo

The second movement contains intensive cantilenas and is condensed by variations in the repetitions of the theme and supplemented by contrapuntal voices. The flowing melody of the violin, accompanied by dotted rhythms of the piano, is reminiscent of the layout of the second movement in Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 .

3rd movement: Allegretto con variazioni

The movement originally composed for this violin sonata later became the finale of Violin Sonata No. 9, A major op. 47 , the "Kreutz Sonata ". Due to the finale with six variations, which Beethoven later composed, the Violin Sonata op. 30,1 appeared inhomogeneous to the critics because of the diversity of the individual movements. Please also note the information on the “Kreutzer Sonata” under “Key”, where the Austrian composer and music theorist Gerhard Present is of the opinion that the inclusion of the finale from Op. 30 No. 1 in the Kreutzer Sonata was a compositional intention - and not just one Long suspected time constraint arose.

In the development of the variations, a new mood only sets in in the fifth variation through a change in measure and tempo, which is continued in the coda .

effect

The Violin Sonatas op. 30 appeared in 1803 and were dedicated to the Russian Tsar Alexander I , who paid Beethoven 100 ducats during the Congress of Vienna .

The Sonata op. 30.1 was in the review of the Leipzig " general musical newspaper " as something "everyday" called. In the opinion of the reviewer, Beethoven offers in the first movement “not the beautiful flow of thoughts that one encounters so well in his later works” , while the middle movement “one of his beautiful Adagio, with its melancholy character, entirely worthy of Beethoven's best « Be. The final movement, on the other hand, was "not entirely successful" .

Beethoven in turn wrote in the face of this criticism to his publisher Hoffmeister on "Leipziger ox" , they should just let them talk because they "" certainly no one make immortalized by their chatter [are] as it will take no one Unsterblichkeint. .

literature

  • Booklet accompanying the CD box set Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms - Violin Sonatas. Deutsche Grammophon Production (Universal), 2003.
  • Harenberg cultural guide chamber music. Brockhaus, Mannheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-411-07093-0 .
  • Jürgen Heidrich: Violin Sonatas. In: Beethoven manual. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3476021533 . Pp. 466-475.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Alexander Wheelock Thayer : Ludwig van Beethoven's life . Edited from the original manuscript in German by Hermann Deiters. Revision of the new edition effected by H. Deiters (1901) by Hugo Riemann , 5 volumes, Leipzig 1907-1917, volume 2, p. 351