Day 2:  Into the Middle Period  (1801 - 1805)


Music (2.0.1)   String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18 No. 1, 1801
                         Alban Berg Quartett.  Movement 2  (8:00)


Music (2.0.2)   Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 27, No. 2, 1801.  (Essay
                         Official title: Quasi una fantasia   Popular title: "Moonlight Sonata"
                         Valentina Lisitsa, piano.  Movement 3  (7:43)


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Theater an der Wien in 1815.  Beethoven premiered numerous works here.


Music (2.1)   Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 27, No. 2, 1801.  (Essay
                      Official title: Quasi una fantasia   
                      Valentina Lisitsa, piano.  Movement 1   (6:00)

                 Beethoven's student Carl Czerny called it:

                       "a nocturnal scene, in which a mournful ghostly voice sounds from the distance."


Talk:   What are Opus Numbers?  (5:00)


Talk:   Vienna, 1801 - 1809   (10:00)


Talk:   Beethoven's deafness:  The Heiligenstadt Testament  (1802)  Text  (8:00)


Music (2.2)    Violin Sonata No. 9 in A minor, Op. 47, "Kreutzer"  (1803)  (online essay)
                       Joshua Bell, violin and Yuja Wang, piano.  Mvmt #1  (11:15)      Notes.


Talk:   The Enlightenment and the French Revolution  (20 min)


Music (2.4)    Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, "Eroica"  (premier: 4/7/1805)   Notes  (30:00)


Music (2.5)    Piano Sonata No. 21, in C major, Op. 53 ("Waldstein")  (1803-04)  Notes
                       Leif Ove Andsnes, piano (pronounce).  Mvmt #3  (6:00) 



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