LECTURE NOTES: The only sonata of the Op.31 in 4 movements, and the last Beethoven sonata in 4 movements. --------------1st movt--------------- 1. @1:15 starts with a repeated question. The more questions. Finally half an answer in feminine cadence😉 2. @2:09 rhythm is the main component in this movement: 3 crochets & 1 dotted minim 3. @3:57 strings then winds 4. @4:34 varied version of THAT rhythm 5. @5:26 Beethoven changes the meter. The music goes against the bar line. In 3/4 time, we now have 1,2,1,2,1,2...full of hemiolas 6. @6:07 the last thought of the exposition. The accompaniment once again uses THAT rhythm. 7. @7:10 the rhythm motif goes into the bass section which is actually too heavy to articulate graciously. But he tries very hard. 8. @7:40 Mannheim rocket 9. @8:13 Beethoven sneakily goes back to the harmony of the beginning, then smuggles back the first theme. --------------2nd movt: symphonic scherzo movement in sonata form------------ 10. @8:56 semiquaver accompaniment in the left hand sounds like a bassoon. Above it is a chorale with subtle Sforzandi 11. @10:00 a composed memory slip~ 12. @10:36 fortissimo after pianissimo!! Then sharply articulated staccati which is natural for the woodwinds --------------3rd movt: menuetto-------------- 13. a Rococo movement 14. Camille Saint-Saëns loved this sonata and wrote a set of variations for 2 pianos on the theme of this trio --------------4th movt:--------------- 15. a positive gallop which serves as a model for Schubert's C minor sonata. It serves as a dance of death in Schubert. But in Beethoven it's a hunting motif, where you hear the hunting horns and trumpets 16. one of the most extroverted and cheerful Beethoven sonatas

Beethovens unbeschreiblichen Kosmos kongenial erklärt, Bravo Bravissimo.

I've never heard such clipped staccatti and blunt sf . I will remember this lesson from Schiff . I must see if Brendel has said anything about the publishers ' marks and staccatti I had a book of his where hedid talk about these marks .

Beethoven also wrote Hammerklavier in 4 movements - Schiff has forgotten this...

“Fur Elise” is a wrong title, it was “Fur Terese” but someone miswrote it somewhere. That said, given Beethoven’s contempt for his late brother’s wife, I’d hate to think that “The Hunt” Is yet another mistranslation.

Storm in a teacup

2nd movement ..another example of Beethoven composing semi boogie woogie music

14:04

He says this sonata is the last with four movements, but Hammerklavier has four, mustve made a mistake

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the execution of the first theme is totally governed by horror vacui.