The entire corpus of Beethoven's piano sonatas is contained in this two-volume work — 32 sonatas in all. Volume Two contains the seventeen sonatas from Beethoven's second and third periods, including the Waldstein, the Appassionata, and the Hammerklavier. The music is reproduced directly from the exemplary Universal-Edition set edited by Heinrich Schenker. Combining scrupulous scholarship and profound artistic vision, Schenker achieved an edition which is universally admired by musicians and scholars.
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Dec 17, ; d Vienna, March 26, German composer. His early achievements, as composer and performer, show him to be extending the Viennese Classical tradition that he had inherited from Mozart and Haydn. As personal affliction — deafness, and the inability to enter into happy personal relationships — loomed larger, he began to compose in an increasingly individual musical style, and at the end of his life he wrote his most sublime and profound works. From his success at combining tradition and exploration and personal expression, he came to be regarded as the dominant musical figure of the 19th century, and scarcely any significant composer since his time has escaped his influence or failed to acknowledge it. For the respect his works have commanded of musicians, and the popularity they have enjoyed among wider audiences, he is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music. Three generations of the Beethoven family found employment as musicians at the court of the Electorate of Cologne, which had its seat at Bonn. In he was appointed Kapellmeister, a position which — although he seems not to have been a composer, unlike other occupants of such a post — carried with it the responsibility of supervising the musical establishment of the court. With his wife Maria Josepha Poll, whom he had married in , and who later took to drink, he had only one child that survived. Johann van Beethoven c — was a lesser man than his father.
Copyright notice: The texts, photos, images and musical scores on all pages of this site are covered by UK Law and International Law. All rights of publication or reproduction of this material in any form, including Web page use, are reserved. Their use without our explicit permission is illegal. The precise point at which the revelation came is unclear, though it was around the end of and very early in the Memoirs do not mention any precise occasion. The letters of Berlioz before this time betray no special awareness of Beethoven.
