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Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer born in Bonn on 16 and December 17, 1770 and died in Vienna March 26, 1827.
Last great representative of Viennese classicism (after Gluck, Haydn and Mozart), Beethoven has prepared changes to the romanticism in music and influenced Western music for much of the nineteenth century. Uncategorized ( “You make me feel like a man who has many heads, many hearts, many souls,” said Haydn to 1793), has expressed his art in all genres, and although his music Symphony is the main source of its universal popularity, he also had a considerable impact in the piano writing and music room.
Overcoming a strong effort tests of a life marked by the tragedy of deafness in his music celebrating the triumph of heroism and joy as the destiny he prescribed isolation and misery, he deserved this statement by Romain Rolland: “It is much more than the first musicians. It is the force most heroic of modern art. Expression of an unalterable faith in man and a voluntary optimism, saying the musical creation of an action as free and independent artist, Beethoven’s work has made him one of the most influential figures in history music.
Beethoven composed many beautiful still openings (Leonore III, The Creatures of Prometheus, Egmont, King Stephen, Coriolan, The Consecration of the House), a Fantasia for piano, chorus and orchestra, one of whose themes will be the Origin of ‘Ode to Joy.
Finally Beethoven will be written a single opera, Fidelio, the work to which he held the most, and certainly one that cost him the harder. Indeed this opera is constructed on the basis of a first test which has the title Leonore, opera has not been welcomed by the public. He remains three versions Opening of Leonore, the latter is often interpreted before the finale of Fidelio.
Although the symphonies are his most popular works and those by whom the name of Beethoven is known to the general public, certainly in his music for the piano (as well as for string quartet) that is most distinguished engineering Beethoven. Soon recognized as a master in the art of playing the pianoforte, the composer, during its existence, pay close attention to all the technical developments of the instrument in order to exploit its full potential.
Traditionally, it is said that Beethoven wrote 32 piano sonatas, but in reality there are 35 piano sonatas fully completed. The first three are the sonatas for piano WoO 47, composed in 1783 and called the Elector Sonatas. Regarding the 32 sonatas traditional works of major importance since Beethoven has given opus number to each of them, their composition spans over twenty years.
This group, now considered one of the monuments dedicated to the instrument, shows even more than the symphonies, the composer’s stylistic progression over the years. The sonatas of classical form in the beginning, will gradually overcome this form and no longer keep the name, Beethoven was pleasant to start or complete a composition by a slow movement, such as in the famous sonata called “Moonlight,” to write into a fugue (see the last movement of Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, op. 110), or to appoint a sonata composition in two movements (see the Sonatas No. 19 and 20 , op. 49, 1-2).
As and when the compositions are gaining freedom of writing are increasingly architected and increasingly complex. One can cite the most famous among the Appassionata (1804), the Waldstein in the same year, or Les Adieux (1810). In the famous Hammerklavier (1819), length and technical difficulty reaching such proportions that involve the physical capabilities of the interpreter as those of the instrument, and require sustained attention from the listener. It is one of the last five sonatas, which form a separate group called the “last order”.
This term refers to a culmination of Beethoven’s style, in which the composer, now completely deaf, having all the technical problems of composition, abandons all formal considerations to cling only to the invention and discovery of new sonic territories . The last five sonatas are a culmination of the piano literature. The “final order” of Beethoven, with the last period of the master’s life means the most acute manifestation of his genius and have no progeny.
Besides the 32 sonatas, do not neglect the Bagatelles, the many sets of variations, various works of considerable importance (including Rondos op. 51) and a few pieces for piano four hands.
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