Beethoven Patheotique

Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 ("Pathétique"), I. Grave; Allegro
Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata “Pathétique” is written by a world famous German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven. This piece of music is comprised of three movements, Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio, Adagio cantabil, and Rondo: Allegro. The sonata form is used in the first movement, and contains three parts which are called the Exposition, Development and Recapitulation respectively. The beginning of the first movement consists slow dissonant C minor melodies is the exposition section with a binary form, it shows the motive which makes me concentrate and feel full of solemn, and then start to repeat the motive. Next, the tune is changed
The development section takes all of these music from exposition section, mess around with it, manipulate it. That’s where the composers really get to show off, all of the interesting things he can do with the musical idea, and he develop it. At the beginning of the development section, it returns to the exposition section twice that brings back a segment of the Grave introduction in G minor, coming from E-flat major by way of a D dominant seventh chord. At the first ending of the exposition section, the chord leads back to to it’s original key. Instead of proceed elsewhere, the second end of the section repeats a octave for the restatement of
He is one of the most famous German composer and representative of Vienna Classical Music in Europe. As a key figure of classical music, his works promotes a huge and far-reaching impact on the development of world music. Beethoven had written 32 Piano Sonatas, and the Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, op. 13 was written in 1798, when he was 27 years old. It was a gift for his friend and patron named Prince Karl von Lichnowsky. Majority of people thought this was one of the few pieces that was titled by Beethoven himself, while another idea was that the actual title Grande sonate pathétique was named by a publisher who was impressed by this sonate’s tragic sonority. This Sonata comes off like a culmination of Beethoven's early piano sonata and widely known by its dramatic melody. It was a reflection of his conditions of life, his hearing began to deteriorate when he was 25 in 1796, and by the last decade of his life he was almost totally deaf. Instead of performing and conducting to the public, Beethoven put all of his effort in composing and completed most of his beautiful works in the last 15 years of his life. The Pathétique was an important success for Beethoven that helped him to create his reputation as a composer, not just an extraordinary pianist. Beethoven moved to Vienna and started learning from the great musician Joseph Haydn at the age of 21. He soon gained a reputation as a pianist,