Sonate pour le Piano-Forte für das Hammer-Klavier des Museum's für Klavier-Musik. Erste Lieferung. Verfasst und der Freyin Dorothea Ertmann geborne Graumann gewidmet ... 101tes Werk ... A. Müller sc. Preis [3/9]

Author: BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van 1770-1827
Title: Sonate pour le Piano-Forte für das Hammer-Klavier des Museum's für Klavier-Musik. Erste Lieferung. Verfasst und der Freyin Dorothea Ertmann geborne Graumann gewidmet ... 101tes Werk ... A. Müller sc. Preis [3/9]
Publication: Wien: im Verlag bei S. A. Steiner und Comp. [PN S. et C. 2661.], [February 1817]

Description:

Oblong folio. 1f. (recto decorative series title, verso blank, 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] ("Musikalische Anzeige von S.A. Steiner und Comp."), 2-19, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout.

Series title within octagonal decorative border: "Musée Musical Des Clavicinistes. Museum für Klaviermusik. [1]tes Heft. Wien: S. A. Steiner und Comp. A. Müller sc."

Remnants of early blue wrappers to spine. A very good, crisp copy overall.

First Edition, second issue. LvBWV, p. 640. Dorfmüller, p. 225 (Weinhold), 336, and plate 8b. Hoboken II, 419.

The present issue is distinguished from the first issue by the imprint "im Verlag bei S.A. Steiner und Comp." (as opposed to "bei S.A. Steiner und Comp.") in the first issue), followed by a list of agents and their locations.

"Op. 101 is among the most difficult of the sonatas, and Beethoven himself once described it as 'hard to play.' ... The challenge of this work lies not only in the complex polyphony of the march and finale but in the delicate narrative sequence of the whole. Twice we pass from spheres of dream-like reflection into the vigorous musical landscapes of the march and finale. ... Few of Beethoven's pieces exerted such a strong spell on the Romantic composers as this A major Sonata. Mendelssohn imitated it in his op. 6 Sonata; Wagner found in its opening movement the ideal of his 'infinite melody;' Schumann was captivated by its march-like second movement. Along with the cello sonatas op. 102 and the song cycle An die ferne Geliebte, the A major Sonata marks a major transition in Beethoven's style, pointing unmistakably to the unique synthesis achieved in words of his last decade." Kinderman: Beethoven, p. 197.

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