Day 5:  The Late Period (1816 - 1826)


Music (5.1)    Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 (the "Hammerklavier")  (1817-1818) 
                            Daniel Barenboim, piano.  Movement III - Adagio sostenuto   (21:03)

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Violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh, Beethoven's friend who premiered his late string quartets.


This Sunday afternoon - Jax Symphony -  $10.00

    The Life and Times of Beethoven w/ performance of the Fifth Symphony


Talk:  Beethoven's Last Decade

Class Discussion:  Harvey Sachs:  The Ninth  (Discussion Notes)


Video:   What is a fugue?  (8:15)   (play)


Video:  The fugue in the Hammerklavier  (1:15)


Music (5.1)    Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 (the "Hammerklavier")  (1817-1818) 
                            Valentina Lisitsa, piano.     Movement 4 - fuga: allegro risolto  (9:30)


Music (5.2)    Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab major, Op. 110 (1821)  Hélène Grimaud, piano  
                             Movement 3 - Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro ma non troppo  (10:20)


       The third movement's structure alternates two slow arioso sections with two faster fugues.
       In Alfred Brendel's analysis there are six sections – recitative, arioso, first fugue,
       arioso, fugue inversion, homophonic conclusion




Music (5.3)    String Quartet No. 13 in B♭ major, Op. 130 with the Große Fugue  (1825)
                            Quatuor Ebène   Course notes


Music (5.4)    Große Fuge, Op. 133  (the original final movement of String Quartet No. 13)  
                             Alban Berg Quartett    Course notes on the Große Fuge


Music (5.5)    Mass in D major, Op. 123 "Missa solemnis"  (1824)  Course notes  
                             Royal Concertegbouw Orchestra, Nicholaus Harnoncourt, cond.



Beethoven's late period piano, given to Beethoven by the Broadwood piano company in 1817. 



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