Ludwig van Beethoven(1770∼1827), typical composer of classical music, has been recognized as highly significant musician.
Even though he was composer of Classical music, he wasn't restricted from formulaic form making his own way in music history a...
Ludwig van Beethoven(1770∼1827), typical composer of classical music, has been recognized as highly significant musician.
Even though he was composer of Classical music, he wasn't restricted from formulaic form making his own way in music history as talking new composition technique. Owing to his work, it could establish Romantic music.
Beethoven composed music of all of the genre; 32 sonatas of his work have been called 'the new testament' in music history and achieved recognition until now.
These 32 sonatas not only show the Beethoven's all of the music form and technique but also enable the form of piano music history to change.
Beethoven's passion of piano music composition is shown all through his life, and a feature of music represented in the piano sonata includes a characteristic of classical music and romantical music.
His work career has been divided into 3 period; first, middle, and last. This paper deals with Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano sonata Op. 2 No.2 in A major, one of the three sonatas composed in the first Vienna period, usually known as the stage of imitation.
Despite some evidences of imitation, the sonata is worth studying in that it show his much originality, especially in the composing technique, the work reflects not only absorption of Classic stlye, but novel virtuosity of Beethoven's own style.
Most of all, the sonata was composed in the stage of imitation as mentioned above, impling the influences of Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who had already been leaders of the Viennese Classics. In conclusion, we can find many different aspects in the Piano Sonata Op.2 compared with works of other composers.
Beethoven introduced irregular structures, As an innovative reformation on form of traditional sonatas, which were a stepping stone to the subsequent period of music, and eventually he established a net form of piano sonatas.