Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Op. 30, Nos. 1-3

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Cat No: 8550286

Release Date: 12 January 2000

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Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BEETHOVEN

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op. 30, No.1 Sonata for Violin and Piano in C Minor, Op. 30, No.2 Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op. 30, No.3Ludwig van Beethoven's early musical training at home in Bonn hadprovided him with some ability as a string player as well as with moreremarkable virtuosity on the keyboard. As a court musician, he followed hisinadequate father and his highly distinguished grandfather in the service ofthe Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, employed both as court organist and as aviola-player. When he finally left Bonn for Vienna in 1792, it has beensuggested that he took violin lessons from Ignaz Schuppanzigh, a formerviola-player, six years Beethoven's junior, who had recently turned to theviolin and a professional career that was to be of some distinction.Beethoven's memorandum book, at least, contains the note Schupp. 3times a W., which others suppose a reference to Schuppanzigh's father, aprofessor at the Realschule, who might have been recruited to help make up thedeficiencies in the young man's general education. He also received instructionon the violin from Wenzel Krumpholtz, a former member of Haydn's orchestra atEsterhaza, who had recently joined the Vienna court orchestra, a musician whoshowed a rare early understanding of Beethoven's work as a composer.Nevertheless his early career in Vienna was primarily as a pianist ofconsiderable virtuosity, a course of life limited from the turn of the centuryby his deafness and by his growing prowess as a composer of the most remarkablepower and originality.Beethoven's compositions for violin and piano cover a period from about1790 until 1818. An early set of variations on a theme from Mozart's opera TheMarriage of Figaro and a Rondo were followed by the first complete violin andpiano sonatas, a set of three published in 1799 and composed during the courseof the preceding two years. The sonatas were dedicated to the ImperialKapellmeister Antonio Salieri, from whom Beethoven had sought lessons on hisfirst arrival in Vienna, acquiring from him a growing understanding of vocalwriting. While early lessons from Haydn were soon abandoned, the lessons withSalieri, for which no charge was made, continued for at least ten years.The three sonatas of Opus 30 were dedicated to Tsar Alexander I ofRussia and written in 1802, at a time when Beethoven was increasingly depressedby ill health. The first of the sonatas, in the key of A major, originallyincluded the finale of the later Kreutzer Sonata. The first movement opens witha genuine duet between violin and piano, while the second theme is entrustedfirst to the keyboard. The slow movement is an expressive D major Adagio,followed by a final theme and six variations, the contrapuntal fifth of them inthe key of A minor, before the final lilting Allegro.The second sonata of the set, in the key of C minor, opens with arhythmic figure that assumes considerable importance in the movement. Thesecond
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