Piano Trio, Op. 97 (Beethoven)
The Piano Trio No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 97 by Ludwig van Beethoven is a piano trio (ie composed for piano, violin and cello ), published in 1811. It is often referred to as " Archduke Trio " because it was dedicated by the composer to his pupil Archduke Rudolph of Austria.
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Formation
Beethoven Piano Trio began work in the summer of 1810, and locked it in March 1811. Thus, the composition falls into his "middle creative period ", which ranges approximately from 1803 to 1814. The piano trio was born around the time of the ruins of Athens, King Stephen and the Symphony No. 7 and Symphony No. 8
The first public performance took place on April 11, 1814 at Vienna Hotel "Zum Roman Emperor " instead. The performers were Beethoven himself (piano), Ignaz Schuppanzigh (violin) and Joseph Linke ( cello ), with Beethoven's deafness made are already being felt. The violinist and composer Louis Spohr wrote: " At Forte poor dove was beating so that the strings rattled, and the Piano, he played again so delicate that whole groups of notes failed to materialize ." This was Beethoven's last public appearance as a pianist. From about 1818, he was largely deaf.
The first edition appeared in 1816, for Beethoven, as the autograph of 1815 proves undertook some small changes, but meant no substantive changes from the 1811 factory, designed shape.
In 1829 the Vienna wrote " General Musical Gazette ":
"Where, genius, art, nature, truth, spirit, originality, invention, design, taste, force, fire, imagination, sweetness, deep feeling and cheerful joke in sisterly harmony to embrace: so you have to exclaim with the poet :" Omne tulit punctum < ( his name is master of his craft; Horace. ) "
About the Music
First movement: Allegro moderato
The movement begins with a legato theme in the piano. Through its chords to the B- flat major of the set are the keys G major and E flat major over instead of the dominant F major. At a pianissimo close to the accompanied by some quiet chromatic trills reprise, again sounding the tonic and the main theme at the end. It follows the implementation, the pizzicato passages in Beethoven's string quartets their precursors No. 7 in F major, Op 59.1 ( the first " Razumovsky Quartet " ) and No. 10 in E flat major, Op 74 ( the " Harp Quartet " ) find their precursors. After the effect of lagged dominant at the beginning of the coda, as in Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op 57, of the first " Appassionata ," a series aussdrucksstarker cadences.
Second movement: Scherzo Allegro
The second movement is, as is typical for other works from Beethoven's middle period, created in five parts. The scale as b -minor fugal opening theme of the trio is compared with a second, in the style of a Viennese waltz trio theme.
Third movement: Andante cantabile con moto ma però Poco piu adagio.
Following the theme of the slow conceived in D major third set of four variations.
The coda of the movement comes to a halt several times since their approaches do not come to their musical finale. This gives the coda a mood of parting, so that musicologists Lothar Schmidt wrote:
"This coda takes a gesture anticipates that unfolds in the 19th century completely in replay to great songs. [ ... ] The inner time of the periodic structure is virtually abolished in the elongation of the extraordinary moments that periodically consolidated melody expands to a large, vocal liberated "
Fourth movement: Allegro moderato - Presto
The final movement alternates several times between tonic and subdominant sounds and so on to the beginning of the first sentence. After a detailed sonata rondo form of the sentence ends in an A -major coda remember their cadences also to the first set.
Trivia
The music of the Archduke Trio came in movies such as Elizabeth George's crime never shall forget you (A Traitor to Memory ) (2001 ) Haruki Murakami's novel Kafka and on the beach (2002 ) are used.