New "lost" early Beethoven Sonata completed (reconstruction) & premiered 10/20!

[49410enrique]

oh happy happy day!

(i'm sure the pianostreet blog will have an entry on this in the next 'issue' i would be shocked if it does not)

https://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/10/beethovens-lost-sonata-is-played-today-out-simultaneously-on-record.html

https://www.zefirrecords.nl/album/e3d731623b8005226f3/martin-oei_ludwig-van-beethoven-fantasia-sonata.html

https://ceesnieuwenhuizen.com/

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It appears that Beethoven wrote one more piano sonata, three years before he published his first official sonata. The young Beethoven was 22 years old then. This Sonata Fantasia in D was hidden in the archives since 1792, and is now issued in print for the first time. The publication and the reconstruction of the sketches was done by the Dutch Beethoven musicologist Cees Nieuwenhuizen. The work of the young Beethoven resembles the famous Moonlight Sonata and the Sonata Pastorale and contains many ideas that Beethoven used in other, later works. It's a fascinating link between the early piano works and the first piano sonatas Opus 2 published by the young master. The world premiere was 21 October 2012 by the young piano virtuoso Martin Oei (16 years) in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

see j_menz reply for score download link

[j_menz]

Thanks for that enrique! 

For anyone interested, the score, together with accompanying notes, can be downloaded from here:

https://ceesnieuwenhuizen.typepad.com/cn/Beethoven/Scores/Beethoven%20Fantasia%20Sonata%20in%20D.pdf

[49410enrique]

Thanks for that enrique! 

For anyone interested, the score, together with accompanying notes, can be downloaded from here:

https://ceesnieuwenhuizen.typepad.com/cn/Beethoven/Scores/Beethoven%20Fantasia%20Sonata%20in%20D.pdf

looks like we both included the dl link. i will edit and remove mine so we dont 'double post' lol.

i just found out myself, just passing along the great news. happy happy day for us all. and for/to those that don't care about 'classical' and Beethoven (i have heard many a time. 'i only like romantic music, i don't like classical' in some form or fashion in the past around these parts)...

[j_menz]

looks like we both included the dl link. i will edit and remove mine so we dont 'double post' lol.

Ooops. I should read more carefully. 

Can't wait to actually have a go at this!