Beethoven as a compose in the classicism period, along with Haydn and Mozart, had established Viennese classical musical style, and even further as a frontier of Romantic music school created his own musical style.
He left many works in all genres, o...
Beethoven as a compose in the classicism period, along with Haydn and Mozart, had established Viennese classical musical style, and even further as a frontier of Romantic music school created his own musical style.
He left many works in all genres, one of which is piano works demonstrating us all his musical attempt and progress of creation. In his piano sonatas, the process of progress is clearly noticeable since they are composed throughout his whole life.
This study which is focused on analyzing his piano sonata Op.53, I intended to find the historical process of development in sonata, and broaden the understanding on Beethoven's piano sonatas, that are which is differentiated from other musical forms in terms of its firm classical style and romanticism.
Even though this sonata Op.53 utilized the sonata-allegro form and the rondo form with a slow introduction, it only has two movements unlike to other sonatas in three to four movements in the Classical era. The first movement mostly shows three gradually developed motives. The relation between the first theme and the second is in the mediant distance, not in the dominant distance showing his unique style far from the classical approach. The second movement shows both classicism and romanticism which are typically proved by the usages of the change of rhythm and tempo, contrast dynamic, the splendid thematic development with long trills and rocket technique. Furthermore, the frequent usages of dominant 7th chords, diverse modulation with diminished 7th chords, embellished 7th chords, and long continuity of the same chord indicates the progress to the romanticism.
Through the analysis of this sonata, the classicism along with the romanticism appeared in the sonata Op.53 and Beethoven's own creatively new attempts are understood. I will be able to understand his characteristics of style and to interpret his piano sonatas by thorough theoretical analysis.