Saturday, May 23, 2009

Sonata for Piano & Violin in A major; unfinished (1783)

Biamonti 3, Hess 46

These are two fragments, one has the character of a minuet and may come from an intended minuet movement or variation movement, or perhaps even a final movement, the other perhaps episodes of a rondo. The first makes use of a canonic moments between violin and piano likely Beethoven is trying to be cute here - it bears some similarities to the “Spring” sonata. The rondo fragments move back and forth between the major and minor, I don’t get the sense that they are meant to be continuous. A recording exists on the Unheard Beethoven website.

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