Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven)
The Violin Sonata No. 7 in C Minor Op. 30 No. 2 is a sonata for violin and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Formation
The Violin Sonata, Op 30.2 was developed together with the other two violin sonatas of Opus 30 No. 6 in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1 and No. 8 in G Major Op. 30 No. 3, in 1802.
About the Music
1st movement: Allegro con brio
The volatile theme of the first movement is repeated on the subdominant and ends after a descending chromatic tone scale in the dominant. The first eight bars of the movement form a I-IV -VI cadence. The second theme of the movement, a march is repeated in the piano and ends in a final group with chords, as a final point. The exposition is not repeated.
After processing the issues as well as their combination with the final group during implementation follows the recapitulation, in which the eight bars of the main theme does not immediately sound like still in the exposition, but only after the insertion of another six cycles.
The coda is similar to the presentation of the main theme in the piano bass and a Cantilena in the violin part of the implementation and thus appears as re-execution.
The transition from D flat major to A flat major, both in the implementation and in the recapitulation and processing of the second theme as contrapuntal narrowing in D flat major - also in the recapitulation - is the Key Major a constant element of the sentence.
2nd movement: Adagio cantabile
The Adagio that gets elegiac character by the Key A flat major, is constructed in ternary form with a coda. While the central part with its sustained tones in violin and arpeggiated piano chords forms a contrast to the Cantilena of the first movement, attacks the dotted figure in the repetition of the first part of the march-like second theme of the first movement.
3rd movement: Scherzo. allegro
The cheerful held Scherzo of the Sonata is a trio in C major.
Beethoven later distanced himself from this set. Thus, the Violin Sonata No. 7 should be published without the scherzo in a planned but not executed work complete edition.
4th movement: Finale. Allegro - Presto
At the beginning of the fourth movement sounding the bass trills and chords of the first movement again.
From the plant, the set combines the form of the Rondo, which manifests itself through unmodified repeats the theme, and the sonata form, which in enforcement, like sections from T. 134 or in an E-flat major section from bar 39, which as a inter alia, page subject that is expressed.
Effect
The Violin Sonatas Op 30 published in 1803. Beethoven's dedication of the sonatas to the Russian Tsar Alexander I were paid by those with a payment of 100 ducats to the composer during the Congress of Vienna.