Beethoven's Piano Sonatas (Audiobook) | Date: 13 April 2011, 16:50
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Beethoven was a revolutionary man living in a revolutionary time. He captured his inner voice—demons and all—and the spirit of his time, and in doing so, created a body of music the likes of which no one had ever before imagined.
"An artist must never stand still," he once said.
A virtuoso at the keyboard, Beethoven used the piano as his personal musical laboratory, and the piano sonata became, more than any other genre of music, a place where he could experiment with harmony, motivic development, the contextual use of form, and, most important, his developing view of music as a self-expressive art.
[b]Pushing the Piano to Its Limit and Beyond [/b]
Spanning the length of his compositional career, Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas provide a window into his personal musical development, and they show the concept of the piano as an instrument and the piano sonata as a genre undergoing an extraordinary evolution.
The sonatas are not simply compositions for the piano, but are about the developing technology of the piano itself, an evolving instrument that Beethoven pushed to its limits and then beyond, ultimately writing music for an idealized piano that didn't come into existence until some 40 years after his death.
[b]An Engaging and Exhilarating Professor[/b]
As in his previous courses, Professor Greenberg combines his perceptive analyses of musical excerpts with historical anecdotes, metaphors, and humor. He shows what goes on inside a musical composition: how it came to be written, how it works, and how—as is often the case with Beethoven—it may break all the rules to achieve a new and powerful effect. This course is somewhat technical and although musical knowledge is helpful, it is not necessary.
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[list][*]1. Beethoven and the Piano
[*]2. Homage to Mozart
[*]3. The Grand Sonata, Part 1
[*]4. The Grand Sonata, Part 2
[*]5. Meaning and Metaphor
[*]6. The Striking and Subversive, Op. 10 Continued
[*]7. The Pathetique and the Sublime
[*]8. The Opus 14 Sonatas
[*]9. Motives, Bach and a Farewell to the 18th Century
[*]10. A Genre Redefined
[*]11. Sonata quasi una fantasia—The Moonlight
[*]12. Lesser Siblings and a Pastoral Interlude
[*]13. The Tempest
[*]14. A Quartet of Sonatas
[*]15. The Waldstein and the Heroic Style
[*]16. The Appassionata and the Heroic Style
[*]17. They Deserve Better, Part 1
[*]18. They Deserve Better, Part 2
[*]19. The Farewell Sonata
[*]20. Experiments in a Dark Time
[*]21. The Hammerklavier, Part 1
[*]22. The Hammerklavier, Part 2
[*]23. In a World of His Own
[*]24. Reconciliation
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