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Emotional Expressiveness and the Subtle Art of Repeating a Theme

On the evolution of Beethoven's musical expression

　I burned my third CD.　This time it is two pieces, "Waldstein" and "Passion". 　These two pieces are also considered masterpieces, and it seems that a new piano, a French Erard, was used for composing them.　The range of the sound was widened and the width of the dynamics was increased, and the pi...

　I burned my second CD.　This time it is Beethoven's "Pathetique", "Moonlight", and "Tempest", which are considered masterpieces.　Under the supervision of my teacher, I reviewed the three pieces that I had previously typed.　The review is a strange thing; at the time, I thought it was fine, but...

The term "Zyklus" refers to...

　I am reviewing the Beethoven piano sonatas I have been working on to burn them to CD under the guidance of my teacher again.　This time it is No. 14, "Moonlight". 　It's a strange thing, when I re-listen to the piece I uploaded to this blog thinking it was good enough, I find that there are various...

Master Class Lessons on Beethoven's Complete Piano Sonatas by Barenboim

　I have been listening again to the "Piano Sonata No. 8" that I had performed before, in order to burn it to CD. 　First of all, I would like to talk about the fp, which is indicated in the symbolic chord from the beginning of the first movement.

　I've finally finished inputting No. 17 "Tempest", with my musical advisor's comment, "Let's listen to it again in a while".　The composition of the three movements is well calculated, and even so, each of them is full of unique beauty.

　Now, the topic of this issue is about the third movement of Beethoven's String Quartet.　Last time I typed Beethoven's String Quartet 5th movement "Cavatina", and I am currently typing the 3rd movement of No. 15 in between typing the Tempest.　Beeth...