Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven)
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The Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, the second of his opus 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia. It has four movements:
Characteristic of Beethoven, the development section contains a theme not found in the exposition (this happens in earlier compositions such as the fourth violin sonata also)[1]
The second movement was originally sketched out in G major before taking its current form [2].
The autograph to the sonata turned up in a collection built up by H. C. Bodmer in Zurich, discovered in the mid-20th century [3].
The work takes approximately 26 minutes to perform.
[edit] References
- ^ Churgin, Bathia (Summer, 1998). "Beethoven and the New Development-Theme in Sonata-Form Movements". The Journal of Musicology (St Joseph, Michigan: Imperial Printing Company) 16 (3): 327–9. doi:10.1525/jm.1998.16.3.03a00030. JSTOR 763994. As the author notes, the practice of including new material in the central section of a ternary-form (sonata) movement is not a Beethoven innovation- there are examples in and preceding Mozart's music.
- ^ Sundram, Jason. "Notes on Violin Sonata no. 7, opus 30 no. 2, 1802". http://jsundram.freeshell.org/ProgramNotes/Beethoven_Sonata.html. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
- ^ Aber, Adolf (May 1956). "Beethoven's Autographs". Musical Times (The Musical Times, Vol. 97, No. 1359) 97 (1359): 249–251. doi:10.2307/936460. JSTOR 936460.
[edit] External links
- Violin Sonata No. 7: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.
- Recording by Corey Cerovsek, violin and Paavali Jumppanen, piano from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- The Mutopia project has information about the composition Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven) - this is for the Allegro con brio
- The Mutopia project has information about the composition Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven) - this is for the Finale
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