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Title	Adagio cantabile - Klaviersonate #8
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Music from the Romantic (1820-1900)
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Publisher's article no.	20131086
Price	36.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Beethoven, Ludwig van
Arranger	Hafner, Gerhard
Opus no.	Op.13
Difficulty level	2
Duration	5:30
Additional info/contents	Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798.
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Programme notes: Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798 when the composer was 27 years old, and was published in 1799. It has remained one of his most celebrated compositions. Beethoven dedicated the work to his friend Prince Karl von Lichnowsky. Although commonly thought to be one of the few works to be named by the composer himself, it was actually named Grande sonate pathétique (to Beethoven's liking) by the publisher, who was impressed by the sonata's tragic sonorities. Quelle/Source: Wikipedia In the second movement of Beethoven's "Pathétique", titled "Adagio cantabile", the tense and dramatic moment of the first movement dissolves into a tremendous intimacy. The cantabile reverie that characterizes the main theme of the slow movement is only dissolved by the secondary theme, which brings drama into the movement. Not only by the urgent triplet rhythm, but also because the initial minor changes surprisingly into major after five bars. Finally, special refinement in the slow movement of the "Pathétique", Beethoven links the main theme with the triplet rhythm of the secondary theme. Quelle/Source: BR-Klassik

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