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词条 Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)
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  1. Form

     Allegro assai  Andante con moto  Allegro ma non troppo — Presto 

  2. Further media

  3. References

  4. External links

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Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the Appassionata, meaning "passionate" in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the Waldstein, Op. 53 and Les Adieux, Op. 81a); it was composed during 1804 and 1805, and perhaps 1806, and was dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick. The first edition was published in February 1807 in Vienna.

Unlike the early Sonata No. 8, Pathétique,[1] the Appassionata was not named during the composer's lifetime, but was so labelled in 1838 by the publisher of a four-hand arrangement of the work.

One of his greatest and most technically challenging piano sonatas, the Appassionata was considered by Beethoven to be his most tempestuous piano sonata until the twenty-ninth piano sonata (known as the Hammerklavier) {{Citation needed|reason=important information but needs citation to direct reader to where Beethoven wrote/said this|date=March 2019}}. 1803 was the year Beethoven came to grips with the irreversibility of his progressively deteriorating hearing.

An average performance of the entire Appassionata sonata lasts about twenty-five minutes.

Form

The sonata, in F minor, consists of three movements:

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|Allegro assai
|Andante con moto
|Allegro ma non troppo — Presto
}}

Allegro assai

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A sonata-allegro form in {{music|time|12|8}} time, the first movement progresses quickly through startling changes in tone and dynamics, and is characterised by an economic use of themes.

The main theme, in octaves, is quiet and ominous. It consists of a down-and-up arpeggio in dotted rhythm that cadences on the tonicized dominant, immediately repeated a semitone higher (in G{{music|flat}}). This use of the Neapolitan chord (e.g. the flattened supertonic) is an important structural element in the work, also being the basis of the main theme of the finale.

As in Beethoven's Waldstein sonata, the coda is unusually long, containing quasi-improvisational arpeggios which span most of the early 19th-century piano's range. The choice of F minor becomes very clear when one realises that this movement makes frequent use of the deep, dark tone of the lowest F1 on the piano, which was the lowest note available to Beethoven at the time.

The total performance time of this movement is usually between {{frac|8|1|2}} and 11 minutes.

Andante con moto

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A set of variations in D{{music|flat}} major, on a theme remarkable for its melodic simplicity combined with the use of unusually thick voicing and a peculiar counter-melody in the bass. Its sixteen bars (repeated) consist of nothing but common chords, set in a series of four- and two-bar phrases that all end on the tonic. (See image.) The four variations follow:

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|Similar to the original theme, with the left hand playing on the off-beats.
|An embellishment of the theme in sixteenth notes.
|A rapid embellishment in thirty-second notes. A double variation, with the hands switching parts.
|A reprise of the original theme without repeats and with the phrases displaced in register.
}}

The fourth variation cadences deceptively on a soft diminished seventh, followed by a much louder diminished seventh that serves as a transition (without pause) to the finale.

The total performance time of this movement is about 6 to 8 minutes.

Allegro ma non troppo — Presto

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A sonata-allegro in near-perpetual motion in which, very unusually, the second part is directed to be repeated, and not the first. It has much in common with the first movement, including extensive use of the Neapolitan sixth chord and several written-out cadenzas. The movement climaxes with a faster coda (at presto speed as seen above and in many editions) introducing a new theme which in turn leads into an extended final cadence in F minor. According to Donald Francis Tovey this is one of only a handful of Beethoven's works in sonata form that end in tragedy (the others being the C minor Piano Trio, Piano Sonata Op. 27 no. 2 ("Moonlight"), and the Violin Sonata Op. 30 no. 2.).[2]

The total performance time of this movement is about 7 to 8 minutes with the repeats and about {{frac|5|1|2}} to 6 minutes without them.

Further media

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References

1. ^Schindler, A. (1970). Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven. Reprografischer Nachdruck der Ausgabe Münster 1871. Georg Olms Verlag. p. 66
2. ^{{cite book|last=Tovey|first=Donald Francis|title=A Companion to Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas|origyear=1931|year=1998|publisher=The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music|location=London, UK|isbn=1-86096-086-3|pages=177}}

External links

  • {{Wikiquote-inline}}
  • A lecture by András Schiff on Beethoven's piano sonata Op. 57
  • Creation History and Discussion of Musical Content
  • Analysis of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata on the All About Ludwig van Beethoven Page
  • Further analysis at BBC Radio 3
  • Recording of this Sonata by Serg van Gennip
  • For a public domain recording of this sonata visit Musopen
Sheet music
  • {{IMSLP2|work=Piano Sonata No.23, Op.57 (Beethoven, Ludwig van)|cname=Piano Sonata No. 23}}
  • Public domain score and midi file of the 2nd movement on Mutopia
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