Ludwig van Beethoven
Grande Sonata in B flat major op. 106 'Hammerklavier'
for piano
Ludwig van Beethoven
Grande Sonata in B flat major op. 106 'Hammerklavier'
for piano
- Instrumentation Piano
- Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
- Series B
- Editor Jonathan Del Mar
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Sheet Music Download (Urtext)
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA11810-DL
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Description:
Here you have a sonata that will give pianists a hard time, one that will be played in 50 years' time, Beethoven is said to have written to the publisher Artaria about his enormous Sonata in B flat major op. 106. In view of its monumental dimensions and extreme musical and pianistic demands, the title "Grande Sonate" is rather modest. The sonata, dedicated to Archduke Rudolph of Austria, is famous not least for the composer's seemingly unrealizable metronome markings for the first movement and the final fugue. The editor not only provides convincing answers to this critical question, but also to much-discussed questions such as a or a sharp in the first movement (mm. 224-226) or the articulation of the semiquavers in the Adagio (m. 165). There is nothing uncomplicated about this pinnacle of classical-romantic sonata composition, written in 1817-1819 in "crowded circumstances", and the source situation also presents the greatest editorial challenges.