Piano Sonata No. 11 (Beethoven)

The Piano Sonata No. 11 in B- flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1799 - 1800th She is dedicated to Count Johann Georg von Browne, and at the end of Beethoven's " youthful " sonatas, the so-called " first creative period." During the time when the 11 Beethoven piano sonata was already working on his first piano concerto.

Construction

• First movement, Allegro con brio, B- flat major, 4/4-time, 199 cycles
• Second movement, Adagio con molto espressione, E-flat major, 9/8-Takt, 77 cycles
• Third movement, Menuetto / Minore, B-Dur/g-Moll, 3/4-time, 46 cycles
• Fourth proposition, Rondo, Allegretto in B flat major, 2/4-cycle, 199 cycles

1st Set

The key and the light-hearted tone of the first set are reminiscent of the resulting same time Piano Concerto No. 2. The broken chord figures of carrying it out are also similar in the Piano Sonata No. 21 ( " Waldstein " ) and the Piano Sonata No. 23 (so-called " Appassionata "). Unlike in some other Beethoven sonatas, the first sentence has neither a second implementation nor a coda; he lives from the internal dynamics that make pianists like Schnabel, Gulda judges and heard.

Second sentence

The second movement is in the Subdominanttonart E flat major.

3rd movement

The third movement, a minuet, is in B- flat major, the trio ( Minore) in the relative key of G minor.

4th movement

The Rondo is based on the rough outline ABACABA coda, however, designed each of these parts in ever new variations of individually. That one, the middle parts and thirty-second clear and still " quite quickly " can play, Feinberg, Gieseking and Arrau have shown.

Analysis and reception

The structure and sequence of sets correspond to the classical sonata form. The Sonata continues the embossed by Mozart and Beethoven's teacher Haydn Viennese classicism of the 18th century.

Denis Matthews stated that the sonata "surprisingly free of surprises " is. Joachim Kaiser sees them as "masculine masterpiece that profiled neither pathetic nor elegiac ".

The lower compared popularity of the Piano Sonata No. 11 could be due to the concert, musical but rather " harmless" outer movements.

Beethoven himself said that the head sentence " washed " have.