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    “The Cello Player“ (1896)  

             Thomas Eakins

                   _________

if there could be violin sonatas, there

could be sonatas for, also, other 

instruments

here’s one for cello, Beethoven’s utterly 

magical Cello Sonata no 1 in F major, 

Opus 5, no 1, 1796

note that the structure of the sonata is

being challenged, two movements only,

though the first has two sections that

are linked without pause, the aim is to 

connect the musical information, the 

work becomes a narrative, not a 

collection of disparate pieces

Beethoven is telling a story, speaking

in notes, listen, it’s revelatory

I wish you ears

R ! chard