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D 845, Schubert has accumulated so much
Beethoven that his Beethoven is beginning
to shine through in his own compositions,
Beethoven was a forefather, still present,
it’s often difficult to tell one, indeed, from
the other, even here
Beethoven, see above, punched through
Classicism – Mozart, Haydn – its artificiality,
delivering emotion, instinctively, from the
very start, from which he nearly
single-handedly delivered to the world no
less than Romanticism, like delivering the
recalibration of time and space after
Einstein essentially, so profound a
cultural metaphysical reorganization
Schubert remains ever more courteous,
more beholden to the upper crust that
supports him, and that he ever wants to
court, you can hear it, listen, there is no
confrontation here, just, dare I say,
entertainment
Schubert was not a revolutionary
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Beethoven’s piano sonatas are divided in
three sections, Early, Middle and Late,
indeed, the last of his Early sonatas is
the early ones are all still highly influenced
by his illustrious predecessors, Mozart and
and Haydn, and derive, however
idiosyncratically, from the Classical Era,
though there are notable differences, his
addition of a fourth movement, for instance,
instead of the standard three, an upstart
strutting his stuff, asserting his potent
individuality
with the Middle sonatas, Beethoven is well
on his way to defining the Romantic Period,
nearly single-handedly, the works are bold,
expansive, lush, powerful, a story is told,
movements are chapters in a book, a book
of metaphysical dimensions
with the Late sonatas, Beethoven will leave
the planet, deliver musical revelations
compositional issues apply, which I won’t
get into, for being abstruse, but you can
already hear in his Middle sonatas the
powerful voice of a musical prophet
the name, it straddles the Classical and
Romantic Periods, at home in the salons
of the nobles, but dazzling as well for the
new audiences that are flocking to the
flourishing concert halls
and we’re only at the start of his Middle
Period
stay tuned
R ! chard
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