Beethoven’s Transfer of the “Symphonic Ideal” Into His Middle Period Piano Sonatas What had begun as a slight ringing in Beethoven‘s ears around 1789 had progressively turned into partial deafness by 1801. In 1802, while spending the summer in the

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Watch Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110Stephen Kovacevich Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111Michelangeli Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a revolutionary man who lived and worked in revolutionary and tumultuous times. Much of

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Allegro ma non tanto Janet Horvath, cello Arthur Rowe, Piano (Professor of piano, Associate Dean of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia, Canada) Beethoven Sonata Op. 69 no, 3 in A major for Cello and Piano – Allegro