Tag: Sonata in B minor Hob. XVI:32

  • PROGRAM NOTES: PAUL LEWIS

    PROGRAM NOTES: PAUL LEWIS

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    Ludwig van Beethoven 11 Bagatelles Op. 119 Beethoven’s Op. 119 is a catch-all collection of pieces written without any preconceived formal plan for the enjoyment of amateur piano enthusiasts. The last five were published first as a contribution to a pedagogical publication called the Wiener Piano-Forte Schule (1821), with the first six added to that…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: GEORGE LI

    PROGRAM NOTES: GEORGE LI

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    Franz Joseph Haydn Sonata in B minor Hob. XVI:32 It is not often that you catch the congenial, ever-chipper Haydn writing in
a minor key. But minor keys were all the rage in the 1770s, the age of Sturm und Drang (storm and stress), an age when composers such as C. P. E. Bach sought to…