Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas: A Handbook for Performers
- Author: Gordon, Stewart
This friendly, helpful, refreshingly nondoctrinaire guide to performing Beethoven is quite far from what appears to be a hornets nest atmosphere in American musicology today. It is addressed... — More…
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Contents
- Preface
- Measure Numbering
- Part I
- Considerations
- Chapter One: Sources
- Chapter Two: Beethoven and the Piano
- Chapter Three: Performance Practices
- Chapter Four: Beethoven's Expressive Legacy
- Chapter Five: The Windmills of Beethoven's Mind
- Part II
- The Sonatas
- The Opus. 2 set
- Opus 7
- The Opus 10 set
- Opus 13 Pathetique
- The Opus 14 set
- Opus 22
- Opus 26
- The Opus 27 set: sonatas like a fantasy
- no. 2 Moonlight
- Opus 28 Pastoral
- The Op. 31 set: no. 2 Tempest
- no. 3 Hunt
- The Op. 49 set: Two Easy sonatas
- Opus 53 Waldstein
- Opus 54
- Opus 57 Appassionata
- Opus 78
- Opus 79 alla Tedesca
- Opus 81a Lebewohl
- Opus 90
- Opus 101
- Opus 106 Hammerklavier
- Opus 109
- Opus 110
- Opus 111
- Bibliography