Classic.

I don't really have a single favorite sonata. It depends on the composer and how broad your definition of sonata is. If your definition is a solo piece with at least 2 movements but no more than 7(7 and it starts feeling like a Suite to me, even if the structure is Sonata structure), then I'd say this: Beethoven Appassionata Sonata Mozart Piano Sonata no. 14 in C minor If your definition includes chamber music, then I'd say this: Beethoven String Quartet no. 4 in C minor Mozart String Quartet no. 19 in C If your definition includes concertos, then I'd say this: Beethoven Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor -> This was the 1 piece that got me hooked on Beethoven when I was a teenager and made me start craving more Beethoven music and change reaction to what I've heard before of Beethoven. Symphony no. 5 went from "Eh. I mean I like it, but I prefer Mozart." to "Woah, so dramatic, I love this. This is my new favorite symphony." Mozart Piano Concerto no. 24 in C minor If and only if you include symphonies in your definition of the sonata(as I would, I would consider a sonata to be "A multimovement piece for any ensemble with a minimum of 2 movements and a maximum of 7 movements and where at least 1 movement is in Sonata Form") can I say definitively what my favorite sonata is and that is: Beethoven Symphony no. 5 I could listen to Beethoven's Fifth all day and not get sick of it. I could listen to Beethoven in general every day for a year and not get sick of him. And quite frankly, I do pretty much listen to at least 1 Beethoven piece every day, there's hardly a day that goes by without me listening to Beethoven at all. Whether it be the little excerpts I use for the music theory book I'm writing(for which Beethoven is currently in second place behind Mozart in terms of excerpt numbers and has held that place pretty steadily, even as I add more Bach and other Baroque era composer excerpts(In fact, the only time Bach was ahead of Beethoven was when I went over Non-Chord Tones and used 3 Bach examples vs 2 Beethoven examples)), one or two pieces, or a bunch of pieces(like back when I was looking for leading tone IACs, I listened to all the minor key string quartets and many other Beethoven pieces thinking I'd find it somewhere in all those uses of the diminished seventh chord, but nothing. I had to shift my focus to lieder in order to find the leading tone IAC(took just a few minor key lieder(I focused on minor keys because I find diminished sevenths more commonly in minor keys) by Schumann to 1) find a cadence using the diminished seventh chord and 2) find a leading tone IAC, and I also found it in Schubert and Brahms)) I'm pretty much always listening to at least some Beethoven. Sorry for rambling on so long, I tend to do that, especially about things that I'm really interested in like classical music and everything that relates to it like music theory. I could write an entire essay on why I love Beethoven so much. I could write an entire book as a memoir of my compositional process with a particular piece(and in fact, I've tried doing that multiple times in the past). And I could write an entire book on music theory, which is exactly what I'm doing and have been doing for this past year. Got to Applied Chords this year, now I'm just hoping that I'll finish the Harmony section by August 2023. Is it likely? Honestly, no, for multiple reasons, but the main one is just that finding pieces to use as examples takes so long sometimes. There have been times where I've been searching for pieces to use for a week, or more, before I finally found them.

@@khasab6124 Haha. I wouldn't actually do that. I wouldn't have any friends if that were the case and I do have friends. I don't even know enough about especially the psychological part to do an analysis for that long. I know my limits for what I can and can't ramble on. My health is one that I can't ramble on. Nobody needs to know every little pain I have or whether I can feel my strong heartbeat or not. And I would just be embarrassing people by telling them that. I'd just tell them about the major things if I needed to say anything besides "I'm doing fine." like if I'm sore or if I feel ill. Music is one thing that I can ramble on because I know at least some people will listen and it's a strong interest of mine. And I also tend to ramble more when I'm typing than when I'm speaking.

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