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Beethoven the Musical Wordsmith
Professor Carol
English - January 23, 2007 21:35 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Music musicappreciation classicalmusic education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Beethoven sliced and diced his themes, using musical rhetoric that rebelled against the natural melodic style of Mozart and that charted a path into 19th-century Romanticism. Professor Carol uses the Piano Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 31, to show how he did it.
Works Discussed: Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 31