beethoven op. 31 no. 1

[MattL]

What are your opinions on this piece. My teacher introduced it to me and i am in love with it now, its very underated also so im not sure if many people know which sonata im talking about

[mikey6]

In gmaj? It's one of the more humerous sonatas.  The theme was intended as a joke (the displacement of the right hand to the left) and one critic actually commented that the pianist's hands couldn't play in together!

[zemos]

hehe really? If I were Beethoven I'd be offended!
I think it's a wonderfull sonata.
But maby I'm not a good exaple, I love Beethoven and I love all his sonatas so much. He's the greatest!

[odsum25]

The G Major is a delightful and humorous piece that is very underrated, perhaps because it is in the same opus with the Tempest and the E-flat. Not a difficult piece, but very good for keeping one's technique up to snuff and to work at evenness and dynamic control of scale passages.

[MattL]

well I just played it in a recital today and the 16th run was a disaster, it just has a way of screwing itself up.
(Then again I had two weeks to perfect it and I didn't even bother to so it was my fault)
Anyways, the piece itself is an awesome one, its both humerous and very dramatic and thats what I love about it, it perfectly exemplifies, IMO, the Beethovian sonata form.