Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor, op. 2, no. 1, was written in 1795 and dedicated to Joseph Haydn.
A typical performance lasts about 19 minutes.
The sonata is in four movements:
The first movement, in 2/2 time, is in Sonata form. The first theme is driven by a Mannheim Rocket, very similar to the opening of the fourth movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 40. The second theme, in A-flat major, is accompanied by eighth-note octaves in the bass (usu...
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Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor, op. 2, no. 1, was written in 1795 and dedicated to Joseph Haydn.
A typical performance lasts about 19 minutes.
The sonata is in four movements:
The first movement, in 2/2 time, is in Sonata form. The first theme is driven by a Mannheim Rocket, very similar to the opening of the fourth movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 40. The second theme, in A-flat major, is accompanied by eighth-note octaves in the bass (usually with dominant harmony). There are two codettas; the first consists of a series of energetic descending scales in A-flat major, and the second is a lyrical passage marked con espressione. In this second codetta and in the second theme Beethoven makes interesting use of mode mixture as the right hand parts borrows from the parallel minor. The development opens with the initial theme, but is mostly dedicated to the second theme and its eighth-note accompaniment. The retransition to the main theme uses its sixteenth-note triplet. The...
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