Description

• Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
• Editor: Bertha Antonia Wallner
• Fingering: Conrad Hansen
• Instrumentation: Piano
• Work: Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat Major, Op. 22
• Binding:
• ISMN: 9790201813103
• Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches
• Pages: 23
• Urtext / Critical Edition

Description

Composed in 1800, this work was published two years later under the title “Grande Sonata” in order to demonstrate the resumption of an earlier, four-movement sonata model. Beethoven proudly announced to his publisher: “This sonata is a winner” – which implied not only both the high technical demands through brilliant, virtuoso passages, but also the sonata’s particular musical characteristics. in 1807 a critic judged that the work combined “in a very original manner brilliance and power, solemnity and poignancy, cheerfulness, pleasantness, and an unsettling and great loftiness”.