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Topic: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?  (Read 2457 times)

Offline _chops

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which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
on: October 23, 2007, 10:57:32 PM
im looking for the right to play on my audition..!
 

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #1 on: October 24, 2007, 01:10:36 AM
im looking for the right to play on my audition..!
 

So then why don't you go with YOUR favorite? BTW - with a post like this, you're bound to have all 32 named by the end.
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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #2 on: October 24, 2007, 01:30:05 AM
well, what's your current rep?
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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #3 on: October 24, 2007, 01:55:35 AM
op. 109


But... don't try to play that.  Play op. 81a

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #4 on: October 24, 2007, 04:27:11 AM
I'm having a kick over op.31 no.3 rigth now ! So amazing , and I'll be playing it next semester! I don't think it's a bad choice either for auditions, op.81a is definitely a great option too.

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #5 on: October 24, 2007, 09:13:28 AM
No. 21 Opus 53 (Waldstein)

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #6 on: October 24, 2007, 09:39:56 AM
No. 17 - Tempest

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #7 on: October 24, 2007, 11:50:06 AM
Pathetique

*runs away*
Bach - Partita No.2
Scriabin - Etude 8/12
Debussy - L'isle Joyeuse
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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #8 on: October 24, 2007, 01:21:28 PM
Hammerklavier, tied with Waldstein, Appassionata and now also op. 26.

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #9 on: October 24, 2007, 03:44:03 PM
101
amazing...

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #10 on: October 24, 2007, 06:09:17 PM
Pathetique

*runs away*

  LOL, seriously though Volume 1 Pathetique, volume 2 Moonlight/Tempest sonata,Volume 3 Appassionata.
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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #11 on: October 25, 2007, 09:51:16 PM
Haven't heard a lot, but I do love the fourth movement of OP 1, # 2
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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #12 on: October 25, 2007, 10:02:44 PM
Haven't heard a lot, but I do love the fourth movement of OP 1, # 2

op 2 no.1 you mean?
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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #13 on: October 25, 2007, 10:06:24 PM
Haven't heard a lot, but I do love the fourth movement of OP 1, # 2

That is a really fun movement, but it's not a sonata for solo piano - it's a piano trio.
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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #14 on: October 25, 2007, 10:13:20 PM
Yes, op.1 no.2 last movement is a lot of fun.  More fun, I think than the last movement of op.2 no.1.

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #15 on: October 26, 2007, 08:19:33 PM
No, it's not for a piano trio. It is a solo piano piece.

https://www.music-scores.com/music-scores/sibtemp.php?more=be2_1d

WAIT, actually, I was referring to op 2. number 1. Maybe op1, number 2 is a trio piece. Sorry
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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #16 on: October 26, 2007, 10:02:45 PM
This is slightly off topic, but does anyone know if its possible to get into a music school with anything other than a beethoven piano sonata?? I mean, yeah, they say you can play mozart or haydn, but do people actually get in with those?

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #17 on: October 26, 2007, 10:58:00 PM
yes, it is possible...in fact there might be more of a chance.

My teacher said that so many play Beethoven sonatas that nowadays judges often get tired of listening to them and they may prefer to listen to a Mozart/Haydn or Schubert sonata instead.
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Offline chopininov

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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #18 on: October 27, 2007, 03:53:34 AM
Here you go sport. Now you can listen to all 32.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FzWJ-Cjg6io
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Re: which is your favourite beethoven sonata?
Reply #19 on: October 27, 2007, 10:54:23 AM
I really can't decide. I dont want it to be too famous either... I was thinking of pathetique and then I changed my mind.
   But my teacher wants me to play n 15 op 28 (pastoral) in d major. Do you think its good?
I've been thinking of no 10 in g major (op 10:2)...
      help me i dont know what to do!
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