LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

• b. Bonn, Germany
• (1770-1827)

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Three Style Periods

• Early to 1802
• Johann Beethoven, father
• 1st teacher
• Haydn as teacher
• Prince Lichnowsky patron
• Symphonies 1 2
• Concertos, Sonatas, Quartets

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Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13, (Pathètique)
Movement 1, Sonata Form

• Intro
• Exposition
• Intro
• Development
• Recapitulation
• Intro
• Coda

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Sonata - Slow Intro

• Thick chords
• Dynamic contrast
• treble and bass in contrary motion
• rests

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Exposition

• A theme - C minor
• bridge
• B theme - Eb Major
• Close
• Intro - Whats this doing here?

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Development
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Recapitulation

• A theme - C minor
• bridge
• B theme - C minor
• Close
• Intro - Again?

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Coda
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Piano Sonata, Mvt. II (101)

• Rondo ABACA

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Piano Sonata, Mvt. III

• Sonata Rondo
• ABACABA coda

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Early Chamber Music

• String Quartets, Op. 18
• Haydn Influence

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Early Symphonies

• Symphony No. 1 (1800)
• Symphony No. 2 (1802)

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Middle Heroic (1802 to 1815)

• Heiligenstadt Testament Deafness
• Symphony No. 3
• "Bonaparte
• Eroica
• Symphonies 3 - 8
• Concertos, Sonatas, Quartets
• Fidelio - his only opera

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Middle Symphonies

• 3 - 8
• 3 Eroica because it celebrates a hero and
  expresses heroic greatness
• Originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte
• 2nd mvt. Is a funeral march.
• 6 Pastoral depicts life in the country

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Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major (103)

• Eroica or Heroic Symphony
• Mvt. I sonata Allegro
• Either three transitions or three dominant key
  secondary themes in the exposition
• Horn entrance seems early before the
  recapitulation

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Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67, First
Movement, Sonata Form

• Exposition
• Development
• Recapitulation
• Coda

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Exposition

• A theme - 4 note motif, C minor
• motif fragment used to build a melody
• represents knock of fate.
• Bridge - ends with horn call
• B theme - Eb Major
• Close - uses A theme

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Development

• A theme
• B theme
• Fragmentation
• Fugal

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Recapitulation

• A theme - C minor
• bridge
• B theme - C Major
• supposed to be in C minor
• close

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Coda

• Close
• bridge theme
• NEW THEME -hey, we should be done!
• A theme - false reprise
• Closing

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Professor Peter Schickle

• WOOF at the
• University of Southern
• North Dakota at Hoople

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Fidelio

• his only opera
• rescue opera
• Leonore dresses as a man and rescues her husband
  from prison

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Rasumovsky Quartets, Op. 59

• Dedicated to Count Rasumovsky, the Russian
  ambassador to Vienna

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Middle Piano Sonatas

• Moonlight Sonata
• Waldstein Sonata
• Appassionata Sonata

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Middle Piano concerti

• Composed to play at his own concerts
• No. 5, Emperor premiered by his student Carl
  Czerny

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Late Total silence

• more meditative and abstract
• Missa Solemnis
• Choral sections indebted to Handel
• Symphony No. 9
• "Choral Symphony
• Ode to Joy by Schiller
• Late Quartets, Op. 131

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String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, No. 14, Op. 131,
(104)

• Mvt. 1 - Fugue
• Answer is in the subdominant
• Mvt. 2 - Ternary or shortened allegro form

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Beethoven 1770 - 1827